The Doors of Mercy. An Autobiographical Novel of a GULAG Prisoner

The autobiographical prose of Alexei Petrovich Artsybushev is a living testimony of a contemporary of the Soviet era, who experienced all the horrors of Stalin's camps but did not lose faith in God's mercy and in the ability of man to love, forgive, and empathize with others. In this book, the author extraordinarily vividly describes his life from his birth in 1919 to his rehabilitation in 1956 after imprisonment and exile. The edition is accompanied by the author's drawings made during his incarceration.