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.

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 ...

Exposed as a spy by a mole in American intelligence, Harrison spent 10 months in the infamous Lubyanka prison, the descriptions of which are riveting.

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 ...

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… ...

MOSCOW, Dec. 22 -- Russian authorities publicly acknowledged today that Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, who saved thousands of Hungarian Jews during World War II, was wrongly arrested on ...

Chained, but Free: How Walter Ciszek gained spiritual liberation in Lubyanka prison How can the life of Walter Ciszek, SJ, help us to understand what it means to find “God’s will” in our lives?

The square in Moscow has been associated with executions, violence and torture in the 20th century. It however has a dark past that goes back all the ...

When 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 the ...