Kolyma is likely the most notorious Soviet labour camp of them all ... of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The House of the Dead (the book in which Dostoevsky described life in a katorga, the precursor of the ...

But he ended up in Kolyma, a notoriously harsh network of labour ... when Stalin's successor Nikita Khrushchev declared an amnesty for Gulag prisoners, in the post-Stalin "thaw".