Boris Vilde. Diary and Letters from Prison. 1941-1942

Boris Vilde (1908, St. Petersburg – 1942, Mont-Valérien), an ethnologist and one of the founders of the Resistance movement in France, was arrested by the Gestapo for clandestine activities and executed along with other defendants in the "Museum of Man affair." Presented in Russian for the first time are the diary he kept in prison while awaiting sentencing (from June 1941 to January 1942), as well as several letters from prison to his wife and the editorial for the first issue of the underground newspaper "Resistance," written by Vilde. Commentary and an afterword by the French historian F. Bédaride, founder of the Institute of Contemporary History in Paris.