Helena Ivanova, a great granddaughter of the 19th Century Russian novelist, Fyodor Dostoyevski, is one of the group of private individuals who sponsored and erected a memorial to the Jewish community of Rosslavel which was exterminated by the Nazis in World War II. Rosslavel is near Smolensk, which was taken by the Nazi Army in the early stages of its invasion of Russia in 1941.
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