Author – Lidia Sooster. SBM-gallery publishing house. Moscow. 2009

"The courageous beauty of the story of the Jewish girl Lida from Moscow, who fell in love with the Estonian peasant boy Ülo behind the barbed wire of the Gulag and then, seemingly in freedom, fills the reader with a fierce helplessness. Could it really have been like that?...

I lived next to them. The second part of my life – already 'in freedom.' And I testify – it was like that. Lida told the truth. I bow to her memory and her courage."

Boris Zhutovsky, artist

"They were different, to say the least, Ülo and Lida. But there was still something familial in them—a nobility of pure quality. And that is their attitude towards work. And that is their attitude towards friends."

Irina Uvarova, art historian