This book is devoted to the history of political repression in the Dobryansky district, a seemingly small part of a huge country. But is grief small? And how to measure it if each person contains the whole world? In our book, designed to open the veil of secrecy over the 20-50s of the XX century, over those aspects of the life of Soviet society, about which the general public until recently knew almost nothing, thousands of such worlds.