Talk:Yelabuga

you should have added that Yelabuga was not only the place of birth of Ivan Shishkin, but also Marina Tsvetaeva's the last place of living. She spent there the last years of her life and hanged herself there.

She did not spend there "the last years" - just the last week. But But, of cause, the first association with the name "elabuga" - "the damned place that killed Tsvetaeva"140.247.103.166 12:37, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

During second world war, a Soviet prisoner-of-war camp was established at Yelabuga. Beginning after the Stalingrad battle, mostly German officers were brought to Yelabuga, but also military personal from Germany's allies, for example Italians,Romanians,Hungarians and Japanese. Some of the captured German officers have published books on their experiences in Yelabuga and Tatarstan after returning home after years, for example the famous author Otfried Preussler, Dr. Wigand Wuester ( "Goettingen Stalingrad Muenchen" and paintings on Yelabuga and Stalingrad ), Klaus Sasse ( the man who secretly took photographs at Yelabuga with his miniature camera ), Dr. Udo Giulini , Adelbert Holl , Assi Hahn ( fighter pilot ) , Dr. Walter Voelkl , Herbert Kreiner ( Knight's Cross holder ). Other authors to mention are Pietro Alagiani ( Italian military priest, ( wrote a chapter about his time in Yelabuga ) and Godfrey Lias ( chapter of  "I escaped" ). The creator of the famous  "Stalingrad Madonna", Kurt Reuber , died in Yelabuga, January 1944. Today, works of Otfried Preussler and Wigand Wuester are in Yelabuga museum.