1928. The arrest of Dmitry Likhachev

Dmitry Likhachev before arrest. 1926. Photo: Solovki.info

85 years ago, on February 8, 1928, for participation in the student circle "Space Academy of Sciences", the future academician Dmitry Likhachev was arrested. Shortly before the arrest, he made a report on the old Russian spelling, "" violated and distorted by the enemy of the Church of Christ and the Russian people. " He was sentenced to 5 years of camps “For counter-revolutionary activity” and served a deadline for Solovki and on the construction of the Belomoro-Baltic Canal. Likhachev was ahead of schedule in 1932, and in 1936 the criminal record was removed.