Documents
Every primary source. The links open the underlying file in your computer (the file paths are relative to this folder, so when the site is later deployed the links will point at hosted copies of the files instead of local ones).
The case file
PDF · 28 MB
Babad — Combined Volumes (working translation)
675 page-images, side-by-side Russian / English, with paleographic and procedural recheck notes threaded throughout. The version stamped 5.10.26 (10 May 2026) is the freshest pass. This is the file to read against when writing.
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PDF · 237 MB
Case file Vol 1 (raw)
183 archival sheets. Investigation: arrest, biographical questionnaire, interrogation protocols, 4 November handwritten confession, indictment, sentence; plus 1957–58 rehabilitation depositions.
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PDF · 15 MB
Case file Vol 2 (raw)
20 sheets. Family materials including Zinaida's 3 November 1940 letter to Beria, plus interim documents.
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PDF · 71 MB
Case file Vol 3 (raw)
99 page-images (67 sheets). Sentencing decision, execution paperwork, rehabilitation correspondence, and the photograph cluster (sheets 61–66) — including the case-file portrait of Mark.
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Family papers
DOCX · 27 MB
Family Letters — translation (v3)
Working corpus of family correspondence preserved by Alex. Lidia Finkelshtein letters Moscow and Vienna 1975–76 and Pittsburgh and the Philippines 1978–79; Zinaida's four 1979–81 Moscow-to-Pittsburgh letters. Side-by-side Russian / English with annotations. v3, compiled 11 May 2026.
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DOCX · 27 MB
Family Letters — translation (in
family_letters/)Second copy of the same file, in the dedicated subfolder. Worth diffing against the root copy if revisions diverge.
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DOCX · 704 KB
Lidia Finkelshtein — Three editor-letters, a friend-letter, and the Sakharov essay
Five distinct documents in Lidia's hand, photographed together in a single notebook: the reply to Viktor Vladimirovich; the long letter to Yuri Mekler; the draft reply to a Radio Liberty editor; the letter to Boris and Lyusya Vail; and the c. 22 February 1980 essay on Andrei Sakharov's exile to Gorky — the last surviving piece of her writing.
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Lidia's published work
PDF · 8 MB
Kontinent №14 (1977)
The major Russian-language émigré literary and political journal, founded in Paris 1974 by Vladimir Maximov. Locate the page range of Lidia's contribution within the issue.
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PDF · 10 MB
Sion №16 (1976)
The Russian-language Jewish émigré journal published in Tel Aviv. OCR'd. Locate Lidia's contribution.
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PDF · 268 KB
"One Hour in the Freedom Archives" (English)
Radio Liberty / Radio Svoboda piece — Ivan Tolstoy's 30 March 2011 broadcast in the "Vladimir Yurasov's Interlocutors" series, including a March 1976 Yurasov interview with the émigré poet Gennady Shmakov. Why this is in mom's writings: provenance to confirm.
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PDF · 490 KB
«Один час в архиве Свободы» (Russian)
Russian original of the same Radio Liberty piece.
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Surrounding research (the Overcoat thread)
DOCX · 32 KB
Pirogov Chronicle, ch. 32 (bilingual)
Bilingual Russian / English extract; the source whose textual ambiguity around Sokolov's notebook and the suicide letter the Overcoat source pack preserves rather than resolves.
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DOCX · 24 KB
The Overcoat — source pack
Working source pack for the Overcoat article. Curated, annotated, with an Open Unknowns section. Standing methodology: when the source is ambiguous, preserve the ambiguity here; let the prose lean either way.
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PDF · 308 KB
Zarubezhnye Zadvorki ("Foreign Backyards")
International online literary publication in Russian, based in Germany. Provenance of inclusion to confirm.
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PDF · 832 KB
«Хроника» об Архангельске и в Архангельске — LiveJournal
"Memo_projects" LiveJournal piece on the Chronicle and Arkhangelsk. Provenance of inclusion to confirm.
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TXT · 2.5 MB
sakharov_b64.txt
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Mom Writings/. Base64-encoded; likely an encoded photograph or scan related to the Sakharov essay. Decode to confirm.Provenance
The case file is held at the Ukrainian Central State Archive of Public Associations (Центральний державний архів громадських об'єднань — ЦДАГО), Kyiv: fond 263, opis 1, file 46736. Certified for permanent custody on 28 August 2019, signed by Chief Specialist I. V. Yankova. Family access dates to the post-2019 period.