My Escort Guard
Description
Prisoner Andrei Vingorsky's painting of a Smolensk female guard in uniform holding a gun across her lap with a view of a city behind her. Prisoner artists often painted camp employees in exchange for extra food rations, better jobs, or other commodities in the Gulag camp "economy."
Creator
Andrei Kuzmich Vingorsky
Date
1944-00-00 00:00:00 | no temporal coverage
Source
International Memorial Society, Moscow
Bibliographic Citation
Andrei Kuzmich Vingorsky, "My Escort Guard." Gulag: Many Days, Many Lives, Item #237 (accessed May 27 2021, 1:07 pm)
Collection
Memorial Moscow