1 A telephone call at dawn 3 -- 2 The red-haired professor 5 -- 3 Prelude 9 -- 4 The snowball 13 -- 5 There's no one so silly as a clever man 20 -- 6 My last year 24 -- 7 Life counted in minutes 30 -- 8 The year 1937 begins 35 -- 9 Expelled from the Party 39 -- 10 That day 41 -- 11 Captain Vevers 48 -- 12 The cellars at "Black Lake" 52 -- 13 The investigators have conclusive evidence 60 -- 14 Stick and carrot 64 -- 15 The walls come to life 70 -- 16 "Can you forgive me?" 76 -- 17 The "conveyor belt" 83 -- 18 Confrontations 88 -- 19 Parting 98 -- 20 New encounters 100 -- 21 Orphans twice over 114 -- 22 Tukhachevsky and others 120 -- 23 To Moscow 128 -- 24 Transfer 132 -- 25 Introduction to Butyrki 141 -- 26 The whole of the Comintern 151 -- 27 Butyrki nights 157 -- 28 In accordance with the law of December 1st 162 -- 29 "A fair and speedy trial" 169 -- 30 Penal servitude -- what bliss! 175 -- 31 The Pugachev Tower 180 -- 32 The Stolypin coach 188 -- 33 Five steps by three 193 -- 34 Major Weinstock's twenty-two commandments 200 -- 35 Bright nights and dark days 203 -- 36 Captain Glan's dog 209 -- 37 The underground punishment cell 215 -- 38 Comunista Italiana 221 -- 39 "Next year in Jerusalem" 226 -- 40 Day after day, month after month 231 -- 41 A breath of oxygen 236 -- 42 A fire in prison 240 -- 43 Punishment cell for the second time 243 -- 44 Memories of Giordano Bruno 247 -- 45 The end of the "monstrous dwarf" 250 -- 46 Great expectations 257 -- 47 A bathhouse! Just an ordinary bathhouse! 263 -- 48 The ruins of Schlusselburg 267 -- 1 Car Number 7 273 -- 2 All sorts to make a world 279 -- 3 The transit camp 331 -- 4 The S.S. Dzhurma 351 -- 5 No luck today, my lady Death! 360 -- 6 Light work 370 -- 7 Elgen is the Yakut word for "dead" 395 -- 8 Free felling 403 -- 9 Salvation from heaven 409.