Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who died Sunday of heart failure at age 89, was a titan in Russian literature and politics of the 20th century. He survived the Stalinist purges, World War II, eight years in ...

CAVENDISH — The town of Cavendish will have an opportunity to honor the legacy of a former resident and renowned literary writer on Town Meeting Day. The town will decide whether to acquire the ...

A complete and uncensored version of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's The First Circle will be published for the first time in English. The fifth novel by the Russian writer who spent eight years in a Soviet ...

On the death of the great Russian writer. Solzhenitsyn knew the macabre, arbitrary workings of totalitarianism from the inside. In the winter of 1945, when he was fighting with the Soviet army on the ...

Why have hardly any of today’s college graduates heard of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn? Because, broadly speaking, there were two kinds of Solzhenitsyn readers, those who stopped reading him in the 1970s ...

(The top right image comes courtesy of Edward Ericson, Jr. and should not be distributed without his prior consent.) The literary works of Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (Dec. 11, 1918–August 3, ...

Shortly after taking voluntary exile from the Soviet Union, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn settled on a 51-acre, fenced and wooded hillside estate in Cavendish, instantly becoming Vermont's best-known recluse ...

Natalya Reshetovskaya, an author and the first wife of Nobel literature laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn, has died at age 84. Ms. Reshetovskaya died in her sleep May 28, the newspaper Izvestia reported ...

Like many who lived in the Soviet Union in the 1970s, I have a personal relationship with Alexander Solzhenitsyn, whom I never met. It is one of boundless admiration. As a college student in Moscow, I ...

I met Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn at his home in Vermont in 1993, through his eldest son, with whom I went to college. It was snowing hard, and he came in from the small separate house he used as his study ...