Evfrosinija Kersnovskaja

The Profile

Interned for more than 10 years in a Soviet gulag; author of a memoir reconstructing years of detention and of detailed drawings made from a gifted box of watercolors and colored pencils.

Gulag survivor and memoirist; recounts long detention, personal hardships and the imperative of memory against historical erasure (as reflected in the available review).

Reviews focus on Kersnovskaja's memoir of detention in the Soviet gulags, praising its detailed, almost monastic prose and the personal drawings produced from a gifted box of watercolors. The account is framed as an important act of memory and testimony against historical erasure. Readers are encouraged to confront the difficult material; the reception on DeBaser is strongly favourable.