ABSTRACT
The 1930s vigorously pushed the Solovki into the distant orbits of the Karelian and Murmansk corrective-labour camps. In the north the borders of this kingdom ran across the Kola peninsula and from Murmansk, through Monchegorsk, Apatities, Kandalaksha, Loukhi and Pangoma, to Kem. In 1934 the Solovki were merely the 8th department of this empire, albeit in certain ways of special importance. The Solovki clearly demonstrated the impossibility of obtaining a healthy work collective by destroying moral integrity. part from hackwork, the Kremlin theatre produced quite worthy plays. Likhachev maintains that the theatre staged excellent plays, with excellent actors, but getting to the theatre was more difficult than getting to the Bolshoy today. The camp regimen was tightened up. The museum, lovingly assembled by inmates, was ruined and icons were destroyed. The repulsive spectacle of a drunken executioner lamenting over his victim, is a fitting finale to the Solovetsky phantasmagorias and absurdities.
