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“the Master and Margarita” by Bulgakov and “Crime and punishment” Dostoevsky became one of the most readable works in the Russian colonies. The Federal penitentiary service of Russia has made a rating of the popular books among the prisoners.

As reported by “MK” in the information center of the Federal penitentiary service of Russia, today the library Fund of the UIS is more than 5 million publications, so that the prisoner has, on average, 100 copies. Literary preferences of the inmates studied in the framework of “Your friends books” dedicated to the Day of recollection of favorite books.

the Most popular book in the colonies, as it turned out, is a novel by Mikhail Bulgakov “the Master and Margarita”.

In the list of the most widely read authors in addition to Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Dumas and Sholokhov were Theodore Dreiser, Erich Maria Remarque, Boris Akunin, Nicolai Gogol, and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. In the men’s penal colonies, convicts prefer historical books, adventure, detective and science fiction, in women’s prisons are the most popular romance novels, and in educational colonies — adventure fiction.

Review of the member of the HRC eve MARICHEVOY:

Today we take the convicts in the prison library is usually not more than 1-2 books a year (a few years ago, read more). Meanwhile, there are studies that show that the more you read, the convict behind bars, the less the likelihood of relapse. We want to turn FSIN initiative to students enrolled in the library and read a certain number of books could be eligible for additional transfer and date. In addition to information about this was included in the feature for parole by the court.

Most popular books behind bars

• “the Master and Margarita”

• “Crime and punishment”

•”the Count of Monte Cristo”

•”War and peace”

•”the Three Musketeers”,

• “the Brothers Karamazov”

•”Les Miserables”

• “and Quiet flows the don”

•”Anna Karenina”

•”the Resurrection”