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A historical novel by Wren Aldercott about Mikhail Orlov, a Leningrad bridge engineer arrested in 1937 and sent to the Kolyma gold camps. The book follows his years as a numbered prisoner and the small acts of survival that keep him human. It is built from research into survivor testimony and NKVD archives, so it reads as grounded historical fiction rather than a thriller. It suits readers of serious camp literature and 20th-century Russian history who want moral weight over action.
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Prisoner 1047: The Gulag Diary is a historical novel about Mikhail Andreyevich Orlov, a Leningrad bridge engineer. In September 1937 he is arrested in the middle of the night after telling one joke at a dinner party. Within a year he is on a frozen pier at the edge of the Sea of Okhotsk, with seven years of his sentence still ahead of him.
The story follows Orlov from a Leningrad stairwell to a Magadan rail platform seven years later. Along the way it covers hunger, betrayal and arbitrary terror, as well as the small mercies that made survival possible. Other characters include a colonel, a priest, a brigade leader, a guard and a doctor who has medicine enough to save only one man in three.
The novel is built from research into Kolyma survivor testimony, NKVD archives and the terror that swept the Dalstroy gold camps in 1938. It is written for readers of Yevgenia Ginzburg, Varlam Shalamov and Anthony Doerr.
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