Photograph of a cart full of ore being pulled out of a mine with six prisoners standing near the mine entrance in Kolyma.

Painting by Georgi Karlovich Wagner, from the series "Kolyma," Magadan, 1946-1947.

Painting by Georgi Karlovich Wagner, from the series "Kolyma," Magadan, 1946-1947.

Color Pencil sketch of Kolyma Magadan Camp by Georgi Karlovich Wagner. On the reverse there is the image of "Bukhta Nagaevo". Wagner spent years of imprisonment working in the gold mines at Kolyma. As an art historian, he produced an album of scenes of the camps during his time there.