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2022.025.001

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Drawing

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This copy of a drawing was donated to the Nobel Prize Museum by the human rights organisation Memorial, which is dedicated to collecting, preserving and publishing material on oppression during the Soviet Union’s totalitarian regime.

The drawing “The Crow” was made by the Russian artist Boris Sveshnikov in a prison camp in 1949–1950. In 1946, when Sveshnikov was a 19-year-old art student, he was sentenced to eight years in prison for anti-Soviet propaganda. He served his sentence in the labour camp Ukho-Izhemsky in the Komi Republic in northern Russia.

The drawing includes both realistic and dream-like elements. For Memorial, it tells of the destruction of life and talent. It symbolises loneliness, injustice and lack of freedom, while also expressing hope.

Memorial donated the copy of the drawing to the Nobel Prize Museum in 2023.

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