The Mask of Sorrows The design was created by famed sculptor Ernst Neizvestny, whose parents fell victim to the Stalinist purges of the 1930s; the monument was constructed by Kamil Kazaev. The mask stands 15 metres high and takes up 56 cubic metres of space. The Mask of Sorrow is a monument in Magadan in Russia dedicated to those who died in Soviet gulags.
