[SkyDancer]

I'm confused with this statement:

"...a monastery in northern Russian first erected and used by Ivan the Terrible to imprison anti-Soviet White Russian officers and men ..."

He was the Russian Tsar, 1533-84 - I didn't know there were anti-Soviet White Russian's back then.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Should read as follows:

were established in February 1920 in the prison

[in a monastery in northern Russian first erected and used by Ivan the Terrible]

to imprison anti-Soviet White Russian officers and men

That is, Ivan the Terrible built and used the monastery, which later converted by Bolsheviks to imprison.....

[SoCal Pubbie]

Me too! I think it should have been written something like this:

“The Solovetsky Camps of Special Assignment – known by the Russian acronym “SLON” – were established in February 1920 to imprison anti-Soviet White Russian officers and men in the prison of a monastery in northern Russian first erected and used by Ivan the Terrible, Brodsky reports.”