Young provincial girl Andre Sentorens arrives to conquer Paris, where she falls in love with an employee of the Soviet embassy and marries him. Arriving in Moscow in 1930 with her husband and small son, she experiences the most unseemly...
aspects of life in the "state of workers and peasants": total shortages, poverty, lies of state propaganda, fear of the NKVD, mass repressions. Soon, she too will be destined to walk through the circles of the Gulag hell. After serving two sentences in Stalin's camps and returning to France in 1956, Sentorens published a memoir in Paris titled "Seventeen Years in Soviet Camps," but it went unnoticed and is now a bibliographic rarity. The Russian edition of Andre Sentorens' book, supplemented with documents and photographs from Russian and French archives and private collections, is an attempt to restore the undeservedly forgotten name and draw readers' attention to the fate of an extraordinary and courageous woman.
Young provincial girl Andre Sentorens arrives to conquer Paris, where she falls in love with an employee of the Soviet embassy and marries him. Arriving in Moscow in 1930 with her husband and small son, she experiences the most unseemly aspects of life in the "state of workers and peasants": total shortages, poverty, lies of state propaganda, fear of the NKVD, mass repressions.
Soon, she too will be destined to walk through the circles of the Gulag hell. After serving two sentences in Stalin's camps and returning to France in 1956, Sentorens published a memoir in Paris titled "Seventeen Years in Soviet Camps," but it went unnoticed and is now a bibliographic rarity.
The Russian edition of Andre Sentorens' book, supplemented with documents and photographs from Russian and French archives and private collections, is an attempt to restore the undeservedly forgotten name and draw readers' attention to the fate of an extraordinary and courageous woman.
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