How a ballerina survived the Gulag
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Nina's Letters From the Labor Camp in the 19th Century
Nina's letters from the gulak show what it was like for an artist to be imprisoned in a camp. Not many of these lettersm have survived, and they are very often just a life line. During the war, costia ends up m in the besieged city of lenengrat, while nina has already been evacuated to the uril mountains with ha theatre. And thereis also the war time correspondence between costia from the sut oflenengrat and nina. These letters are just a remarkable testimony of their private love before this m backdrop of historical atrocities.
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