For Walter Ciszek, S.J., a small, stocky Polish-American, this spiritual journey was tested in the fire of Moscow’s dreaded Lubyanka prison, where he spent five years in solitary confinement.

A prison was set up in the building in 1920, which later was to “process” the infamous terrorist Boris Savenkov, ... Not far from the Lubyanka building used to be the KGB's reception office.

In the summer of 1952, a collection of the Soviet Union’s most luminous Yiddish writers of prose and poetry lived out their final days in the gloom of Moscow’s Lubyanka prison, caught i… ...

To this day, the formal Soviet report that finally was presented in 1957 remains the official Russian account of the case—Raoul Wallenberg died in his cell in Lubyanka prison on July 17, 1947 ...

When the poet Osip Mandelstam was arrested by the Soviet secret police in the 1930s, he was taken to the notorious Lubyanka prison for interrogation. He drew a distinction between the guards “on ...

After spending five years in Moscow’s notorious Lubyanka prison after his arrest in 1941, Father Ciszek was sent to Siberia to work in forced labor camps throughout the region.

He was arrested in 1941 and was sent to the notorious Lubyanka prison in Moscow. This began a period of pronounced suffering in his life, ...