The First Circle

Written from his own experiences this short novel focuses on the lives of a group of political prisoners held in a sharashka, a research & development laboratory near Moscow manned by engineers & technicians plucked from the gulags to perform work for the state.

Set in

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  Marfino, Moscow Oblast · Russia

  Sharashka prison lab near Moscow
  ★ primary
• Moscow · Russia

  Nearby city framing the story