Abstract
Camp letters are one of the most objective sources in the study of the GULAG prisoners’ everyday life. On the basis of specific quotations from N.P. Antsiferov's letters, the working and living conditions of the camp population of the Baikal-Amur ITL in the late 1930s are considered; Antsiferov's testimonies are compared with the official documentation of the NKVD and the GULAG. The author of the article compares the way of thinking of Nikolai Antsiferov and Varlam Shalamov, as one of the most popular writers about the life of prisoners in correctional labor camps. The article for the first time gives an assessment of the N.P. Antsiferov's epistolary heritage in the study of the history of the GULAG and political repression during the years of Stalin's rule.
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