Exhibition of Drawings by Eufrosinia Kersnovskaya

Exhibition of Drawings by Eufrosinia Kersnovskaya

From October 30, the show opens at Auditorium, featuring drawings by Eufrosinia Kersnovskaya — a former Gulag prisoner. A Bessarabian landowner, Kersnovskaya lost her home after the region was annexed to the USSR and, in 1941, was persecuted and deported to Siberia. A year later she attempted an escape and was sentenced to death; the sentence was eventually commuted to ten years in a corrective labor camp.

After her release, but without ever being rehabilitated, Kersnovskaya created the handwritten book «Сколько стоит человек» and illustrated it with more than 700 drawings. It’s a first-hand account of survival in the camps, pairing documentary precision with striking personal testimony. Work on the text and illustrations began in 1964 and continued into the early 1970s. Fearing the manuscript would be seized and that she’d be arrested again, Kersnovskaya made several copies. In the 1980s, the memoirs circulated in samizdat, and in 1990 the drawings were published in the magazine Ogonyok.

Duration

The exhibition runs from October 30 to November 13

Admission

Free entry

Vojvode Dobrnjca 48, Beograd