Solzhenitsyn died

Writer, publicist, public figure, prisoner of Stalin’s camps, in recent years recognized in his homeland as a living classic and “conscience of the nation,” Alexander Isaevich Solzhenitsyn died on August 3 at 23.45. According to preliminary data, the cause of death was acute heart failure. Solzhenitsyn died in his house near Moscow, where he spent the last years of his life. On December 11 this year he would have turned 90 years old.

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970, author of “The Gulag Archipelago,” “In the First Circle,” and “The Red Wheel,” managed to see the publication of the first few books of a 30-volume domestic collection of his own works. Solzhenitsyn’s last book, “Two Hundred Years Together” (the second volume was published in 2003), is dedicated to the history of relations between the Jewish and Russian peoples.