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1. Conscripted. Stalin volunteered: Ilizarov, pp. 311–12. Sleighs used first dogs, then reindeer, then horses; Stalin on go-slow: Shveitzer, Stalin v Turukhanskoi ssylke, pp. 43–51. Reindeer: Alliluyev Memoirs, pp. 189–90. RGASPI 558.4.218. Merzliakov, I. M. Taraseev, Arsenii Ivanov—present to mother: RGASPI 558.4.662. Sverdlov, Izbrannye, p. 99. Boris Ivanov: RGASPI 558.4.662 and GARF 5449.1.74. Kureika, memoirs of locals and history, conscription and hero’s departure: http://memorial.krsk.ru/Work/Konkurs/4/Panteon_stalina/00.htm. I. D. Perfilev in Volkogonov, Stalin, p. 8. Svetlana Alliluyeva, Only One Year, pp. 381–82.

V. G. Solomin to Stalin and Stalin reply, 5 Mar. 1947: RGASPI 559.11.804. The journey: Ilizarov, p. 313. Newspaper Yeniseisk Krai quoted by Ostrovsky, p. 416. Unfit for military service and trip to Petersburg with orators, etc.: A. S. Alliluyeva, Vospominaniya, pp. 55–55, 62–63, 165–69. Piece of Siberia: Molotov Remembers, p. 256. Achinsk: V. Shveitzer, “V Achinskoi ssilke,” Izvestiya, 12 Mar. 1937. Stalin stays in Achinsk: RGASPI 558.4.218, 124.2.1549, 558.4.662,649 and 667 (V. Shveitzer, V. P. Filipova, A. Pomerantseva) and RGASPI 4.649 (M. Muranov). Baikaloff, I Knew Stalin, pp. 27–30. Whispers: Yeniseisk Krai in Ostrovsky, p. 420. Trains and Stalin’s movements: Ostrovsky, pp. 422–23. Petersburg: RGASPI 161.1.16. A. Shlyapnikov, Semnadtsatyi god, 2:443–47. Stalin stays with Baroness Maria Shtakelberg: Ostrovsky, p. 423. Grand Duke Michael telegram: Volkogonov, Stalin, p. 14.