Lot 1151:
Soviet Union - Great Purge (Great Terror) Correspondences
Not sold
Description
1939, free-frank letter from Leningrad to the Nagaev Bay Department of Internal Affairs (northern part of the Sea of Okhotsk, Magadan Obl.), apparently prisoner’s enquiry, archival holes at left, still F/VF. During the Great Purge, the Nagaev Bay was used as a transit point for newly arrived prisoners by sea to be sent further along the stage to the camps of Magadan and Kolyma, Est. $150-$200
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