Sozerko Artagovich Malsagov (Russian: Мальсагов, Созерко Артаганович) (June 17, 1895 - February 25, 1976), was Russian Imperial Army officer known for his memoir about his escape from the Solovki prison camp.[1][2]

Malsagov, together with four other inmates (Матвей Сазонов,Yuri Bezsonov, Pole Эдвард Мальбродский, Василий Приблудин.) escaped from Solovki on May 18, 1925, and run into Finland.[3] Bezsonov also wrote a similar memoir.

Memoir edit

  • Соловки. Остров пыток и смерти (Записки бежавшего с Соловков офицера С.А. Мальсагова), 1925, in Russian emigre newspaper Сегодня, Riga[1]
  • S.A. Malsagoff. An Island Hell: A Soviet Prison in the Far North, London, A.M. Philpot LTD., 1926. Translated by F.H.Lyon.[3]
  • Адский остров. Советская тюрьма на далеком севере, 1996, translated from English by Sh. Yandiyev (Ш. Яндиев)

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