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Friday, Oct. 27, 2000
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Postcards from the Edge
Photographer Christopher Morris captured images of Russia's remote Solovki Islands
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Medieval writers called them the "islands on the edge of the world." Today, the islands are a place of pilgrimage, for Orthodox faithful who come to the monastery on the main island of Solovetski. But the Solovkis are also known as a place of suffering, as the home of the work camps immortalized by Alexander Solzhenitsyn in "The Gulag Archipelago."
PHOTO: CHRISTOPHER MORRIS-BLACK STAR for TIME
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