"The Gulag Archipelago" - the history of repression, camps and prisons in the Soviet Union (GULAG - Main Directorate of Camps). The book was completed in 1968. “The Gulag Archipelago” is at once a historical study with elements of a parodic ethnographic essay, and the author’s memoirs telling about his camp experiences, and an epic of suffering, and a martyrology - stories about the Gulag martyrs. The narrative about the Soviet concentration camps is focused on the text of the Bible: the creation of the Gulag is presented as the creation of the world by God “turned inside out” (a satanic anti-world is created); The seven books of the “Gulag Archipelago” are correlated with the seven seals of the Book from the Revelation of St. John the Theologian, according to which the Lord will judge people at the end of time.