Literature Stanislav Aseyev

“The Bright Path: The Story of One Concentration Camp” by Stanislav Aseyev is a deeply moving, documentary-style autobiographical book that stands as one of the most important accounts of the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian war. Writer and journalist Stanislav Aseyev spent 962 days in captivity in occupied Donetsk (from May 2017 to December 2019). Most of that time, he was held in “Izolyatsia”—a former art center that the occupying authorities turned into a closed, secret prison, effectively a modern-day concentration camp, which the prisoners and their tormentors themselves called “The Bright Path” (after the name of the street where it is located).