Makeev Alexey Filippovich

Definition:

Prisoner, participant in the Kengir prisoner uprising (1954)

Years of life: 1913-1976
Reproduction methods:

Born in 1913. Geography teacher in a secondary school. Three times convicted of "anti-Soviet agitation" (1941, 1942, 1947), participant in the Kengir uprising. In 1960-1970 he taught geography at the 2nd Moscow school. Wrote memoirs about the uprising, used by A.I. Solzhenitsyn in "The Gulag Archipelago" and R.A. Medvedev in the book "To the Court of History", committed suicide in 1976. The date of death is associated with the broadcast of the third volume of "The Gulag Archipelago" on Western radio; the source reports that, after hearing Solzhenitsyn's text on the radio, he burned his memoirs (one copy has survived), and soon committed suicide

Documents (1)

Fund 03 (Б-2) / Inventory 1 / Case Солженицын Александр Исаевич
140. Article by Suetnov A. “Filippych. The deadly echo of the “GULAG Archipelago” in Nezavisimaya Gazeta dated December 20, 1997 about A.F. Makeev, one of the characters in A.I. Solzhenitsyn’s book.