Eufrosinia Kersnovskaya, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Eufrosinia Kersnovskaya

Russian writer

Date of Birth: 08-Jan-1908

Place of Birth: Odessa, Odessa Oblast, Ukraine

Date of Death: 08-Mar-1994

Profession: writer

Nationality: Russia

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Eufrosinia Antonovna Kersnovskaya (Russian: ???????´??? ????´????? ??????´?????; 8 January 1908 – 8 March 1994) was a Russian woman who spent 12 years in Gulag camps and wrote her memoirs in 12 notebooks, 2,200,000 characters, accompanied with 680 pictures. She wrote three copies of the work.
In 1968, friends typed samizdat copies, repeating the pictures on the back sides of the sheets.
Excerpts from the work were first published in Ogonyok and Znamya magazines in 1990, as well as in The Observer (June 1990).
After that, German and French publications followed.
In 2001 the complete text, in six volumes, was published in Russia.