“Litvinenko used to be the head of the colony. Lespromkhoz was directed by Ivan Ivanovich Stahl. He was not always Ivan Ivanovich. Until the forty-first year he was called Johann Johannovich and was the chairman of the collective farm in the Republic of the Volga Germans. And then the whole collective farm, so to speak, ended up in Komi. They felled forests for the state and grew potatoes for themselves - nothing, they lived...”