Russian patriarch wants former gulag turned into a spiritual center: Patriarch's grandfather was a prisoner there
The new patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church said that he would like to see a former Soviet gulag on the Solovetsky Islands off the northern coast of Russia transformed into a spiritual center.
Patriarch Kirill I said that his grandfather, a priest, was a prisoner in the island camp, whose cruelty was immortalized in dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s book The Gulag Archipelago.