A tablet of Akhmatova missing from the wall of “Krestov” was found in St. Petersburg
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A memorial plaque to the poetess Anna Akhmatova, missing from the wall of the “Kresty” pre-trial detention center, was found in St. Petersburg. The memorial was removed from the wall and handed over to the police by lawyer Vladimir Filatov.
In a conversation with “Kommersant”, the lawyer explained that he removed the board from the wall to save it from possible vandals. “The owner of “Krestov” is now unknown, so the sign may be broken or thrown away,” said Filatov.
The lawyer expects that the police will hand over the plate to the “Novye Kresty” pretrial detention facility — the “Kolpino” pretrial detention facility.
It became known in mid-June that a memorial plaque in memory of the poetess Anna Akhmatova had disappeared from the wall of the former “Kresty” detention center on Arsenalnaya embankment in St. Petersburg. The reasons for the dismantling were not reported at the time.
At the end of May, the FSIN administration in St. Petersburg transferred the “Kresty” complex to the “DOM.RF” joint-stock company. According to the plans, the pre-trial detention center buildings will be sold at auction.
In the 1930s, Akhmatova’s son, Lev Gumilyov, was in “Kresty”. Together with him, the poet’s third husband, the art historian Nikolay Punin, was sent to pre-trial detention center. According to Akhmatova, she spent 300 hours in the isolation ward in the hope of giving a broadcast, but it was never accepted.
Information about the disappearance of the plaque came against the background of frequent reports in Russia about the dismantling of memorial signs to victims of political repressions.
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