Book of Memoirs of Shevki Bektore"When the Volga Spread Like Blood"
The article reveals the life and work of the talented Crimean Tatar poet Shevki Bektore, whose ancestors emigrated from Crimea to Dobruja (Romania), and then to Turkey, who arrived in 1918 at the call of the heart to the homeland of his ancestors, who was actively involved in transformations in the system of national education. And subsequently indiscriminately accused of "nationalism" and sentenced to a long term of imprisonment. The author’s memoirs are a true and emotional story of a man who spent 25 years of his life in Soviet prisons and camps.