Notes on the Soviet camp "Another World" (Another World) are most often compared with Notes from the dead house of F. M. Dostoevsky and Kolyma stories by V. Shalamov. Their author is Gustav Gerling-Grudzinsky (Herling-Grudzinsky) - Polish writer and journalist. A large - along with Gombrowicz and Milos - figure of the Polish literary emigration of the XX century. In October 1939, together with friends, he created the underground organization Polish People's Action of Independence (PLAN). As a courier of the organization, he went to Lviv, then to Grodno, but was arrested by the NKVD there in March 1940, accused of espionage. He was in transit prisons in Vitebsk, Leningrad, Vologda, sent to a camp in Yertsevo (Arkhangelsk region). Stayed there for 2 years.