On the death of the great Russian writer. Solzhenitsyn knew the macabre, arbitrary workings of totalitarianism from the inside. In the winter of 1945, when he was fighting with the Soviet army on the ...

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Solzhenitsyn, the Son, in a Spotlight All His Own as Pianist and Conductor Interview with Ignat Solzhenitsyn, pianist and conductor, who joins St Petersburg String Quartet for concert at 92d Street Y; ...

Shortly after taking voluntary exile from the Soviet Union, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn settled on a 51-acre, fenced and wooded hillside estate in Cavendish, instantly becoming Vermont's best-known recluse ...

When the doorbell to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's Moscow apartment rang on February 12, 1974, his wife, Natalia, cracked open the door to see who was outside. Realizing it was the KGB, she immediately ...