The museum itself initiated the creation of this work. Moreover, this is only part of a joint project with Moscow street art artists, within the framework of which portraits of people who have passed through the camps will appear on the capital's houses.

The background for the writer's image is lines from his letter to another writer who talked about camp everyday life, Alexander Solzhenitsyn.

Shalamov was portrayed by Zoom artist, already familiar to Muscovites. He calls his work “graffiti without vandalism”, often uses improvised materials instead of paints, such as tape or tape cassettes, and if he picks up a brush (or rather, a spray can), his the drawings fit perfectly into the urban landscape.