1994. The return of Solzhenitsyn
At the station in Khabarovsk. June 1994. Photo: SolzhenitSyn.ru 25 years ago, on May 27, 1994, Alexander Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia after a twenty -year exile. The writer, along with his family, flew from the United States to Magadan, and then drove by train from Vladivostok to Moscow, where he performed in the State Duma. The writer hoped that he would be met as a leader and prophet, and hoped that he would play an important social role in the new Russia.