TY - JOUR N2 - The article concerns the ethics of memory in the book Karta rodiny [ Map of the Homeland] by Peter Vayl. The first part of the article examines the issue of the ethics of remembering in relation to the phenomenon of trivialising the memory of the Solovki prison camp. It is represented here, among others, by the picture of contemporary religious and con-sumer tourism described by Vayl in the Solovetsky Islands. A monument dedicated to the victims of the Solovki prison camp will be treated as a separate form of downgrading. The reflection on the monument is an important element of the criticism of collective memory, made in Karta rodiny. In the second part of the article, the author refers to Vayl’s assessment of the attitude of the Soviet writers Maxim Gorky and Mikhail Prishvin, who visited Solovki prison camp and wrote testimonies of this event, ignoring the truth about the crimes which took place in the camp. L1 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/120418/2021-02-SOR-07-Sylwestrzak.pdf L2 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/120418 PY - 2021 IS - No 2 EP - 400 DO - 10.24425/slo.2021.137516 KW - Peter Vayl KW - non‑fiction KW - essay KW - ethics KW - memory studies A1 - Sylwestrzak, Małgorzata PB - Komitet Słowianoznawstwa PAN VL - vol. LXX DA - 2021.08.10 T1 - Memory Ethics in Peter Vayl’s Essay Writing SP - 383 UR - http://journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/120418 T2 - Slavia Orientalis ER -