Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn was a Russian novelist, historian, and dissident whose works exposing the brutality of the Soviet Gulag system, such as "The Gulag Archipelago," earned him international acclaim and the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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instanceOf dissident
historian
human
novelist
political prisoner
awardReceived Nobel Prize in Literature
State Prize of the Russian Federation
Templeton Prize
burialPlace Donskoy Monastery cemetery, Moscow
causeOfDeath heart failure
conflict World War II
countryOfBirth Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
linked to: Russian SFSR
countryOfCitizenship Russia
Soviet Union
countryOfDeath Russia
dateOfBirth 1918-12-11
dateOfDeath 2008-08-03
educatedAt Moscow State University (external studies)
Rostov State University
familyName Solzhenitsyn
fieldOfWork Russian history
literature
political commentary
fullName Alexander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
gender male
genre autobiographical literature
historical fiction
political literature
givenName Alexander
imprisonedBy Soviet authorities
linked to: Soviet government
influenced global human rights discourse
knownFor criticism of Soviet totalitarianism
exposing the Soviet Gulag system
languageOfWorkOrName Russian
militaryBranch Red Army
movement Russian literature
dissident movement in the Soviet Union
nativeName Алекса́ндр Иса́евич Солжени́цын
NobelPrizeInLiteratureYear 1970
notableWork August 1914
Cancer Ward
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
The First Circle
The Gulag Archipelago
numberOfChildren 3
occupation essayist
historian
novelist
playwright
short story writer
teacher
writer
placeOfBirth Kislovodsk
placeOfDeath Moscow
religion Russian Orthodox Church
residence Vermont
returnedTo Russia
spouse Natalya Reshetovskaya
Natalya Svetlova
subjectOf Soviet censorship
wasExiledTo Switzerland
United States
yearOfReturnToRussia 1994

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Templeton Prize notableRecipient Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Gulag system documentedBy Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn fullName Alexander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn familyName Solzhenitsyn
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn nativeName Алекса́ндр Иса́евич Солжени́цын
linked to: Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Soviet literature notableAuthor Alexander Solzhenitsyn
The Gulag Archipelago author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Russian literature hasNotableAuthor Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Donskoy Monastery burialPlaceOf Alexander Solzhenitsyn
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Cancer Ward author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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The First Circle author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Ignat Solzhenitsyn father Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Rostov State University hasNotableAlumnus Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Rostov State University almaMaterOf Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Natalya Reshetovskaya spouse Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Natalya Reshetovskaya relative Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
linked to: Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Natalya Svetlova spouse Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Natalya Svetlova sharesLiteraryLegacyWith Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Natalya Svetlova relative Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Donskoy Monastery cemetery, Moscow notableBurial Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Union of Soviet Writers hasMember Alexander Solzhenitsyn