Igor Leonidovich Pol (1926-2015) wrote the book "Look back with sorrow" based on the memoirs of his mother Kapitolina Nikolaevna Pol, a prisoner of "ALZHIR" camp. He describes his difficult childhood after the arrest of his parents and the subsequent life of the family.

The book was published twice. Igor Leonidovich decided to write this story in 1991. The first edition of the book "Look back with sorrow" was published in Irkutsk (Irkutsk, Sib. kN. publishing house, 1991.-192 p.). In 2004, Igor Leonidovich, then living in Kiev, requested Vera Konstantinovna Gryunberg-Ivannikova, the granddaughter of his aunt, who was serving time in "ALZHIR" to publish the story in Moscow. By that time, he had substantially finalized Chapter 14 of the book on the basis of additional documents that he read in Chita, where in 1937 his father Leonid Emilevich Pol was arrested and shot. In 2004, an expanded edition of the book "Look back with sorrow" (2nd edition.- Moscow: Rus. Terem, 2004.- 246 p., circulation of 1000 copies.) was published.
The electronic version of the book can also be read on the website of the Sakharov Center.