Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who died Sunday of heart failure at age 89, was a titan in Russian literature and politics of the 20th century. He survived the Stalinist purges, World War II, eight years in ...

This is a story about the power of the written word. in 1945, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was sentenced to eight years in the labor camps for criticizing Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin in letters to a ...

(The top right image comes courtesy of Edward Ericson, Jr. and should not be distributed without his prior consent.) The literary works of Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (Dec. 11, 1918–August 3, ...

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 ...

Exiled Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn has died of heart failure at his home in Vermont. He was 89. Larry talks about the life and career of the Nobel prize-winning author with Edward Ericson, ...

The great British historian Herbert Butterfield cautioned against the temptation to tell a neat story about historical events or discover “an unfolding logic” in them. History, he argued, is ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Tuesday afternoon I walked into a small business establishment that employees a handful of Russian-American women. When I entered ...

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I met Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn at his home in Vermont in 1993, through his eldest son, with whom I went to college. It was snowing hard, and he came in from the small separate house he used as his study ...