Anna Reid
The First Gulag
The Journals of a White Sea Wolf
By Mariusz Will (Trans. Danusia Stok)
Harvill Press 229pp £15.99 order from our bookshop
THE SOLOVETSKY ISLANDS lie in the White Sea, an overnight ferry-ride west of Archangel and the same distance south of the Arctic Circle. Covered in bogs, woodland and hummocky glacial hills, they are important as the site both of an ancient Orthodox monastery, and of Stalin’s first labour camp.
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