03/08/2008

Alexander Solzhenitsyn died in Moscow

Prominent Russian writer, Nobel laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn, died in Moscow tonight.
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1970
Autobiography
I was born at Kislovodsk on 11th December, 1918. My father had studied philological subjects at Moscow University, but did not complete his studies, as he enlisted as a volunteer when war broke out in 1914. He became [...]