The memoirs of Tamara Petkevich, along with the works of Varlam Shalamov, Euphrosyne Kersnovskaya, Evgenia Ginzburg and many others, occupy a strong place among the works that captured “a single human drain of slop, goodness, cruelty, atrocities and defenselessness” and forever marked the coordinates of “ camp" theme on the map of Russian literature of the twentieth century. The young, fragile, tender, stunningly beautiful woman had the full opportunity to drink from the cup of suffering that befell the innocent victims of political repression; she experienced backbreaking labor, humiliation, hunger, and cold, which turn prisoners into hunted animals. At the same time, the camp years became for the author not only the science of survival in inhuman conditions. The fate of Tamara Petkevich matches a gripping novel, which combines love, betrayal, jealousy, separation, friendship, meetings with amazing people, the joy of motherhood and the pain of loss - everything that determines the exciting fullness of human life despite the ugliness of the terrible laws of the camp and the willfulness of its gods and gods. The publishing design is preserved in PDF A4 format.