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Varlam Tikhonovich Shalamov (Russian: Варла́м Ти́хонович Шала́мов; 18 June 1907 – 17 January 1982), baptized as Varlaam, was a Russian writer, journalist, poet and Gulag survivor.
Josefina Lundblad-Janjic's research on Varlam Shalamov’s one of the most important poems: “Аввакум в Пустозерске” (18 august 2014) Shalamov considered his 1955 poem «Аввакум в Пустозерске», composed two years after his return from the camps of Kolyma, one of his most important poems. He also ...
Apr 22, 2024 · Varlam Shalamov (born June 18 [July 1, New Style], 1907, Vologda, Russia—died Jan. 17, 1982, Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R.) was a Russian writer best known for a series of short stories about imprisonment in Soviet labour camps. In 1922 Shalamov went to Moscow and worked in a factory.
Kolyma Tales or Kolyma Stories (Russian: Колымские рассказы, Kolymskiye rasskazy) is the name given to six collections of short stories by Russian author Varlam Shalamov, about labour camp life in the Soviet Union. Most stories are documentaries and reflect the personal experience by Shalamov.
Jun 12, 2018 · For fifteen years the writer Varlam Shalamov was imprisoned in the Gulag for participating in “counter-revolutionary Trotskyist activities.” He endured six of those years enslaved in the gold mines of Kolyma, one of the coldest and most hostile places on earth.
Varlam Shalamov. June 18, 1907 — Varlaam (Varlam) was born in the family of an Orthodox priest Tikhon Nikolayevich Shalamov and his wife Nadezhda Alexandrovna. 1914 — Varlam becomes a student of St. Alexander’s Gymnasium (grammar school) in Vologda. 1923 — Graduates from Uniform Labour School N6, situated in the same building as the ...
Varlam Tikhonovich Shalamov (Russian: Варлам Тихонович Шаламов; June 18, 1907–January 17, 1982), baptized as Varlaam, was a Russian writer, journalist, poet and Gulag survivor. Alternate spellings of his name: Варлам Шаламов.
