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.