Who is Nikolai Getman?

Nikolai Getman (Mykola Hetman; Russian: Николай Гетман, Ukrainian: Микола Гетьман), an artist, was born in 1917 in Kharkiv, Ukraine, and died at his home in Orel, Russia, in August 2004. He was a prisoner from 1946 to 1953 in irritated labor camps in Siberia and Kolyma, where he survived appropriately of his ability to sketch …

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