Один день Ивана Денисовича
It has been claimed that much of his account bears similarities to the later semi-fictional account of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich". It has also been compared to "Papillon" by Henri Charrière. It is possible that Petrov's internment overlapped with that of Varlam Shalamov, the Russian writer, whose "Kolyma Tales" depict the brutality of human nature laid bare in this remote camp of the archipelago.