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Solovki

The Story of Russia Told Through Its Most Remarkable Islands

By: Roy R. Robson

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Paperback | 4 May 2011 | Edition Number 1

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322 Pages

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Located in the northernmost reaches of Russia, the islands of Solovki are among the most remote in the world. And yet from the Bronze Age through the twentieth century, the islands have attracted an astonishing cast of saints and scoundrels, soldiers and politicians.

The site of a beautiful medieval monasteryâ"once home to one of the greatest libraries of eastern Europeâ"Solovki became in the twentieth century a notorious labor camp. Roy Robson recounts the history of Solovki from its first settlers through the present day, as the history of Russia plays out on this miniature stage. In the 1600s, the piety and prosperity of Solovki turned to religious rebellion, siege, and massacre. Peter the Great then used it as a prison. But Solovkiâs glory was renewed in the nineteenth century as it became a major pilgrimage siteâ"only to descend again into horror when the islands became, in the words of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the âmother of the Gulagâ system.

From its first intrepid visitors through the blood-soaked twentieth century, Solovkiâ"like Russia itselfâ"has been a site of both glorious achievement and profound misery.

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