Political prisoners -- Soviet Union -- Biography

Urszula Muskus spent 18 years in the Gulag Archipelago. This is her story of long train journeys into Siberia, bandit molls, work on the steppe, the many characters she met and their fates, and eventually reuniting with her children in England.

Alexei is the highly respected head of the Soviet Union's meteorology department. He is also a loving family man, devoted to his wife and his 4-year-old daughter Eleonora. But one fateful morning in 1934, less than a year after being hailed by Stalin as a national hero, he is suddenly arrested an...