[1] She focused her publication on the history of the Russian Orthodox Church, not to attack Soviet authorities for their policies or human rights abuses.
[1] Posev [ru], which was a Russian emigre publishing house based in West Germany, began printing copies of Nadezhda once it received the typescripts.
[1] Soviet authorities charged Krakhmalnikova with deliberately sending articles by a Russian Orthodox priest, Fr.
[1] However, the Soviet press omitted the fact that her official prison sentence at Lefortovo was to be followed by a five-year exile at the remote settlement of Ust-Kan, which is located in Russia's Altai Republic, much closer to Mongolia than Moscow.
[1] She had no access to a priest while living in Ust-Kan.[1] Her husband, Feliks Svetov, an author and Russian Orthodox activist, was later arrested and also sent into internal exile in Siberia.
[1] Following her release, Krakhmalnikova became a pro-democracy activist and publicly called on the Russian Orthodox Church to apologize for its collaboration with Soviet authorities, which, as of 2008, it still has not done.
[1] Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Krakhmalnikova never became a high-profile Russian figure and was little known in Western Europe or the United States.