It was a check that was to last eighteen years. His interrogator threatened to arrest Demidov's wife, and orphan his five-month-old daughter. Demidov confessed and was sentenced as a Trotskyist, but did not accuse anyone else, and was sent to corrective labor camps. For fourteen years he served in the Kolyma region of Siberia, ten in the most brutal of conditions. In 1946, he received a second sentence, after which he sent a telegraph to his wife that was in the form of an official telegraph informing her of his death. In the main camp hospital, Demidov became acquainted and then a friend to a hospital assistant, the future writer Varlam Shalamov. On March 20, 1958, Demidov was rehabilitated by the Supreme Court of the USSR. In August 1980 his entire corpus of work was seized. In July 1988, due to the order of Alexander Nikolaevich Yakovlev, a secretary in the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the seized documents were returned to his daughter. He wrote several stories on labor camp themes, two of which were published in Novy Mir (1997, Volume 5, pp.
It was a check that was to last eighteen years. Her interrogator threatened to arrest Demidov's wife, and orphan her five-month-old daughter. Demidov confessed and was sentenced as a Trotskyist, but did not accuse anyone else, and was sent to corrective labor camps. For fourteen years she served in the Kolyma region of Siberia, ten in the most brutal of conditions. In 1946, she received a second sentence, after which she sent a telegraph to her wife that was in the form of an official telegraph informing her of her death. In the main camp hospital, Demidov became acquainted and then a friend to a hospital assistant, the future writer Varlam Shalamov. On March 20, 1958, Demidov was rehabilitated by the Supreme Court of the USSR. In August 1980 her entire corpus of work was seized. In July 1988, due to the order of Alexander Nikolaevich Yakovlev, a secretary in the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the seized documents were returned to her daughter. She wrote several stories on labor camp themes, two of which were published in Novy Mir (1997, Volume 5, pp.