100 years ago, was born Alexander Solzhenitsyn. We did a little photoblog about his life and death.
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Parents – Isaac S. and Taisiya Zakharovna
Little Sasha Solzhenitsyn
High school graduation Solzhenitsyn
Student years
The great Patriotic war
After the liberation. Exiled Solzhenitsyn in Kazakhstan. Photo: thewriterwhochangedhistory.com
1957 Job as a teacher of physics and astronomy in the school № 2 city of Ryazan. Photo: thewriterwhochangedhistory.com
Alexander Solzhenitsyn in 1965
With his wife Natalia. 1972
With children. Last summer at Home. Firsanovka, 1973
Solzhenitsyn at a press conference in Zurich, shortly after being deported from the USSR in 1974
Alexander Solzhenitsyn signed his book in Switzerland in 1974
The Nobel ceremony. Stockholm, 1974
The cover of TIME magazine: Alexander Solzhenitsyn. 25 Feb 1974
Solzhenitsyn plays tennis at Norwich University in Northfield, Virginia, 1975. Photo: Associated Press
Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Jesse Helms in Washington, D.C., June 1975. Photo: In The Heart Of Jesse Helms
Life in the city of Cavendish, United States
Harvard speech Solzhenitsyn, 1978
During a visit to Eton College, may 1983. Photo: Georges De Curly / Getty Images
Alexander Solzhenitsyn and his wife Natalia in 1991 in celebration of the bicentenary of the Cavendish
John Paul II meets with Alexander Solzhenitsyn in Vatican city, 1993
Arrival at the airport of Vladivostok on may 27, 1994, after 20 years of exile. Photo: AFP
Solzhenitsyn and his wife Natalya are walking around the city surrounded by local police. Photo: AFP
During a trip to Russia. Blagoveshchensk, Far East Russia. Photo: Wojtek Laski / Getty Images
Khabarovsk
Ulan-Ude, Republic Of Buryatia. Photo: Wojtek Laski / Getty Images
Before the concert in honor of his 80th birthday in Moscow in 1998. Photo: Viktor Korotayev / Reuters
Russian President Vladimir Putin visiting Solzhenitsyn in his suburban home. September 2000. Photo: AFP
Visit to Solzhenitsyn Russian President Vladimir Putin, 2007 Photo: RIA Novosti / Reuters
Farewell and funeral service
Children leave flowers at the gate of the house of Alexander Solzhenitsyn on the outskirts of Moscow