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🚔Karl Lagerfeld’s stayed in prison in Siberia for 10 years…

You know Karl Lagerfeld very well. He was a very talented designer and the brand of clothing with his name is still in Russia despite of the sanctions. 👗

👇🏻But I would like to tell you a story not about him, but about his father. Why in the context of Russia? Read further….

🥶Verkhoyansk (the Republic of Sakha-Yakutia) is one of the coldest places on earth and one of the smallest towns in Russia. And, starting in the 1860s, a labor camp for exiles was established over there.

🥛In 1907, Lagerfeld, a 26-year-old trading representative of a concentrated milk factory, arrived from San Francisco via Japan to Vladivostok and opened an office there.

🙏When Germany declared war against Russia on August 1, 1914, the merchant sent a request to the Russian authorities to get permission to travel back to the United States via Japan.

🕵️Nevertheless, on August 3, 1914, he was arrested on suspicion of espionage as a former member of the German army. Within a month, Otto was first sent to the guardroom on Russky Island, then transferred to the Vladivostok regional prison, after which he was sent to a settlement in Yakutia, to Verkhoyansk.

After the war, Lagerfeld was allowed to leave for Germany. He returned to his homeland town of Hamburg and continued selling concentrated milk.❤️

👏🏼He subsequently set up his own production in several cities across the country, including the East Prussian town of Allenburg.

🌎After World War II, East Prussia was ceded to the USSR. And Allenburg became the village of Druzhba in the newly renamed Kaliningrad Region.

🧳Karl Lagerfeld also visited Russia. But only Moscow and only on short fashion-related visits.