Nikolai Bokan Collection

    The photo depicts members of the Bokan family sharing a meager meal during the famine. The family posed for the photo to mark 300 days since they had consumed any bread. The table is covered with a d

    Members of the Bokan family gather near the gate to their home as Vladimir Bokan leaves for a separate residence. Vladimir was urged to leave and become self-sufficient by his father, Nikolai Bokan.

    Nikolai Bokan and his son (likely Boris) are seen preparing buckets of water outside of their family home as a precautionary measure against threats from Bokan’s son Vladimir that he would set the ho

    The Bokan family marks one year of Boris Bokan’s imprisonment for opposing conscription into the Soviet Army. The Bokan family is seen seated at a table covered in a cloth, on which cups and saucers

    Boris Bokan (centre) is visited by his father, Nikolai Bokan (right), and brother Lev-Leonid (left) in prison, where he had spent over a year as punishment for opposing conscription into the Soviet A

    The photo features a window in the Bokan family house, broken by Vladimir Bokan. Vladimir was aggrieved that his father, Nikolai Bokan, had forced him to leave the family home to become self-sufficie

    The photo features Nikolai Bokan standing beside the broken gate to his property. The gate was vandalized by two collective farm workers who would not pay Bokan for his photography services and force

    Boris Bokan returns home after his seventeen-month imprisonment for opposing conscription into the Soviet Army. Boris stands in front of the gate to the family property, carrying a sack over his shou

    The photo features the Bokan family sharing a meager meal to mark the departure of Konstantin Bokan. As his parents were struggling to provide for their large family during the famine, Konstantin was

    Boris and Nikolai Bokan pose on two chairs in front of a backdrop that features a lighthouse. Nikolai holds Leo Tolstoy’s "A Cycle of Readings." He claimed this book had served as a foundation for hi

    Nikolai Bokan and his two sons are pictured seated at a desk, preparing a memorandum. The purpose of the memorandum is unclear, although the date of the photo falls within the week prior to Konstanti

    A son of Nikolai Bokan is pictured sitting in a field in June 1933. Bokan writes that this was the spot where Konstantin Bokan had died of starvation only a few hours earlier. In the few months prior

    The body of Konstantin Bokan lies in a straw-filled coffin filled with his head leaning on a pillow. Konstantin died of starvation in June 1933. In the few months prior to his death, he had been work

    The photo depicts the funeral of Konstantin Bokan. Members of the Bokan family, and possibly other mourners, stand behind the horse-drawn cart carrying Konstantin’s body and coffin. It is unclear whe

    Nikolai Bokan and three of his sons – Boris, Lev-Leonid, and Aleksandr – commemorate the death of their son and brother, Konstantin, who died of starvation. The group is seen solemnly seated at a tab

    The photo features Nikolai Bokan standing next to the grave of his son, Konstantin, who died of starvation. In the few months prior to his death, he had been working on a collective farm where he was

    The photo features the grave of Konstantin Bokan, who died of starvation in June 1933. The top of the grave marker displays a photo of Konstantin, his name, the date of his death, and an inscription.

    The individuals seated on the front bench were sentenced to death for seeking vengeance against the authorities for the seizure of their property. They are surrounded by Soviet authorities in uniform

    The death certificate indicates that Konstantin Bokan died on July 1, 1933 at the age of twenty-one. He is said to have died from exhaustion due to malnutrition (istoshchenie). The doctor's office is

    A photo display board created by Nikolai Bokan in 1935. The board features brief descriptions of his three eldest sons, Nikolai Bokan (Jr.), Vladimir Bokan, and Konstantin Bokan, and their failure to