Title: Vēstules no mājām [Letters from Home - in Latvian]
Description: These are letters sent and received by parents of author Marina Kosteņecka (born 1945, Riga; Russian spelling Kostenetskaya) during 1945-1955, when Marina's father (a lawyer, her mother was a pianist) worked in the coal mines in Vorkuta Gulag (in then Komi Republic, Russia).
Subjects: Latvian Russians, Stalins deportations, Gulag
Places: Riga, Berlin, Vorkuta
People: Grigory Kostenetsky
Time periods: 1945-1955