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=Alexander Petrov-Agatov= Petrov-Agatov, Aleksander Aleksandrovic (born Petrov, A.A., ps Agatov, A.A.) male; b. 1921; poet, writer, member USSR Writers Union; one child; 1947 charged with anti-Soviet propaganda, 1948 Jun trbiyedNKVD Special Commission, charged with criticizing CC CPSU Secretary-General Stalin, convicted,1948-1956 escaped five times?,each time caught and convicted?, 1956 released from Mordovian camp rehabilitated, employed as assistant of Ministry of Culture of CeCcno-InguSskaja ASSR?, published many songs?, 1961 convicted for swindling in musical instruments , sentenced to seven years camp, 1967 Apr released before expiry of term; dluident activity: 1967-68 settled in Leningrad, wrote poems, translated Chechen and lngushi poets, published poems in Soviet journals Neva and Proctor; 1968 published in samizdat collection of verse Songs of Hope and Faith (Pesni nadddy i very) including anti-Stalin poems written during 1943-53; Jul 25 arrested, afterwards expelled from Writers Union; 1969 Jan 7-8 tried in closed suasion by Moscow City Court under art 70-1 UK RSFSR, charged with writing poems, compiling handwritten collection of poems Songs of Hope and Faith in 1968, pleaded not guilty, sentenced to seven years strict-regime camp, one remaining year of former sentence included, sent to Mordovian camp 11: Jun transferred to Mordovian camp 17; late wrote Open Letter to the Editor-in-chief of ‘Jusnost’ B. Polevoj (Otkry toe ...) criticizing Polevoj's article on recently defected writer A.V. Kuznecov by explaining Kuznecoy's defection as natural behaviour of rats leaving the sinking ship; Dec held five-day hunger-strike requesting adequate medical aid for prisoners, transferred to camp hospital, published in samizdat Prison Encounters. A Non-Ficfitious Story (Arestantskie ...), reminiscences of camp; 1970 Jan published in samizdat essay The Russian Poet Leonid Borodin (Russkij ...), and short essay on another VSKhSON (All-Russian Social-Christian Union for the Liberation of the People) leader M.Ju. Sado°; Feb returned to camp 17; Nov sent to Vladimir Prison; Dec participated in hunger-strike of 27 political prisoners in Vladimir Prison demanding improvement of prison conditions; 1973 Dec transferred to Mordovian camp 19; 1974 signed open letter of seven political prisoners urging International Democratic Federation of Women to demand release of some 30 inmates of Mordovian women's camp; 1975 Jul 26 released; prlncipd works: Orkrytoe pismo B. Polevomu, glavnomu redaktoru 'Junosti', s, 1969, AS 382; Arestantskie vstreci. Nevydurnannqia povest', s. 1969, AS 1106; Russkii poet-Leonid Borodin, s. 1970, AS 566.