The GULAG Museum was opened in 2004. The idea
of establishing the museum belonged to Anton
Vladimirovich Antonov-Ovseenko, who recently
turned 90. Son of the famous revolutionary, Lenin’s
fellow-fighter, who was afterward shot dead, Anton
Vladimirovich served time in jail for his father; he has
a crow to pluck with GULAG.
Nowadays, he dreams of the new halls, where the
collected archives and the library will be placed, and
the conferences carried out. He also wishes to see a
long queue of those who want to recover from the
“historical memory deficiency disorder” standing to
the museum, a queue as long as it is on the unique
night of museums.
