Solovki prison camp
The best-known works by Boris Shiryaev " Inextinguishable lamp "is dedicated to his stay in the Solovki prison camp. This is a documentary novel, which consists of a series of stories about the most interesting events and meetings, the author of the Solovetsky Katorga. "Dedicated to the memory of the artist Mikhail Nesterov, who told me on the day the sentence: "Do not be afraid to Solovki prison camp. There, Christ is near "," - wrote Boris Shiryaev in the dedication of "unquenchable oil lamp.", according to the author, a book what he wrote with the mid-1920s and completed in exile on the Capri Island in 1950.