11 Facts About Yevgenia Ginzburg

Yevgenia Solomonovna Ginzburg was a Soviet writer who served an 18-year sentence in the Kolyma Gulag.

Yevgenia Ginzburg first married a doctor Dmitriy Fedorov, by whom she had a son, Alexei Fedorov, born in 1926, who died in 1941 during the siege of Leningrad.

Yevgenia Ginzburg's son by this marriage, Vasily Aksyonov, born in 1932, became a well-known writer.

Yevgenia Ginzburg's parents were arrested but released two months later.

In one of the most revealing chapters of her autobiography, Yevgenia Ginzburg expressed great relief upon hearing the verdict, because she had feared up to that very moment that she would be condemned to death:.

Yevgenia Ginzburg experienced at first hand the infamous Lefortovo and Butyrka prisons in Moscow, and the Yaroslavl "Korovniki".

Yevgenia Ginzburg crossed the USSR on a prison train to Vladivostok and was put in the cargo hold of the steamer Jurma whose destination was Magadan.

In February 1949, Yevgenia Ginzburg was released from the Gulag system but was ordered to remain in the town of Magadan for five further years.

Yevgenia Ginzburg found a position at a kindergarten and began to write her memoirs in secret.

Yevgenia Ginzburg was rehabilitated on June 25,1955 due to the lack of "corpus delicti".

Yevgenia Ginzburg returned to Moscow, worked as a reporter and continued her work on her magnum opus, her memoir Journey into the Whirlwind.