began to cry."Sgovio survived his ordeal. It was the beginning of an eastward journey which was to last a month. Sgovio wrote, "Our train left Moscow on the evening of 24 June. After a perfunctory and routine inquiry he was sentenced by a troika of three officials to five years as a "socially dangerous element".Sgovio was transported in a prison train to Vladivostok. He became disillusioned after three years living in Moscow, and was arrested by the NKVD. Sgovio moved to the USSR at the age of 19 in 1935 as a political émigré. This one is called “Frostbite”Thomas Sgovio was an American artist, ex-communist, and former inmate of a Soviet Union GULAG camp in Kolyma. Sgovio '75limited edition- 15/100 left bottom corner-name of prisoner KOLYMA (1938-1948}The drawing was a gift from Sgovio to my husband, a survivor of the GULAG.will ship insuredThomas Sgovio (1916–1997) created a series of drawings and paintings, which are now in the Hoover Archives, based on memories of his life as a prisoner in the Soviet Gulag. Sgovio drawing “Frostbite” Dimensions of drawing- 10x14 inchesBox frame-16 x 20 inches (see photo) Signed by the artist-T.
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