Gjest Baardsen

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Some of the illustrations in this gallery have been drawn by the artists to illustrate the collections of poems “Gjest Baardsen’s ACHROSTICHON, a twenty-six verse autobiographical ballad and other poems” posted on this website, but also published in paper form. The illustrations were mainly done by the gifted Baltic artist Mikhail Khristoljubov and one or […]

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In his own time, Gjest Baardsen was known as the “master thief,” the “king of escape,” or, in his own words, “Norway’s most famous and dangerous criminal.” Born in 1791, Baardsen was jailed for the first time in his early twenties for burglary and sentenced to two years in the workhouse. It took him fifteen […]