Iuliia Karepova figures prominently in Krutoi Marshrut.

Folder includes Axenova's note indicating that the photocopies were sent to her by Sara Babenysheva, but the location of the original is unknown. Pages come from part 2, chapter 21, "Izvestkovaia." Axenova's note with regard to Babenysheva and the question about the originals applies as well to folders 47 through 51.

Pages come from part 2, chapter 25, "Zeka, Eska i Beka." Draft indicates that this is chapter 36, but in the published version, it is 25.

Pages come from part 2, chapter 22, "Veselyi Sviatoi." Draft indicates that this is chapter 33, but in the published version, it is 22.

Pages comprise another variant of part 2, chapter 22, "Veselyi Sviatoi," which again is indicated as being chapter 33 instead of 22.

Pages come from part 2, chapter 24, "Razluka." This draft indicates that this is chapter 35.

Pages come from part 2, chapter 23, "Rai pod Mikroskopom." This draft indicates that this is chapter 34.

This page represents a draft earlier than the chapters in folders 46 through 51. Ultimately this page becomes part of chapter 5 (part 2), "Vam segodnia ne vezlo, madam Smert." Again the chapter number 13 written at the top of the page does not correspond with the final publication.

Pages come from part 2, chapter 21, "Izvestkovaia" -- see also folder 46.

Olga is the granddaughter of Nataliia Ginzburg.

These 5 books, 4 of which are inscribed, have been cataloged and can be located through the online catalog. The newspaper clipping is a German review of Aksenov written by Heinz Markstein; it was in Drei Trafe, Sich Wieder.

These 66 books have been cataloged and can be located through the online catalog. Most are signed by Ginzburg, and many have personalized inscriptions from such authors as: Ilya Ehrenburg, Evgenii Evtushenko, Bulat Okudzhava, and Lev Kopelev. Folder includes a note by Axenova indicating the connections between Tatiana Tretiakova and Sergei Tretiakov, the author of Slyshish Moskva?

Inserts consist of a postcard, tearwheets with poems written by Sergei Esenin, etc.

Notes include the address of Heinrich Böll, whom Ginzburg visited in 1976, and several Moscow telephone numbers.

Photo shows first four stanzas of Blok's poem written out in E. Ginzburg's own hand.

Folder includes samizdat copies of letters of Solzhenitsyn, Bulgakov, and others. Copies were typed on Ginzburg's typewriter and show her own corrections.

Autograph manuscript signed is comprised of Vyotskii's poem "Istopnik" written out in Evgeniia Ginzburg's own hand.

Folder contains an essay on Mandelshtam and Pasternak's "Zhivago" poems, as well as poems by Belyi Tsvetaeva, Rilke, and others.

Folder contains poems by Brodsky as well as his translation of poetry from Polish and Serbo-Croation.

Karepova (1904-1993) became a close friend of Evgeniia Ginzburg's in prison in Iaroslavl; the friendship continued to grow when both were sent to the labor camps in the Kolyma region in the Far East.

Birth certificate issued in 2004 attests to the fact that Vasilii Aksenov was born on August 27, 1932.

Photograph shows Ginzburg full-face and in profile.

Documents cover Valter's history from his arrest on August 20, 1935 until his release on September 7, 1956.

Folder includes two copies of Valter's appeal to the widow of Maxim Gorky after Valter's arrest.

This receipt for shoes signed by Vasilii Aksenov probably came from the case file of E. Ginzburg, when she was re-arrested in October of 1949.

The autobiography written in Ginzburg's own hand came from her case file. It is part of her appeal to the authorities, who have dismissed her from her job at the school in Magadan "without providing any explanation of the reason for the dismissal."