Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Soviet&Russian
Novelist

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About Solzhenitsyn
Alexander Solzhenitsyn (11 Dec 1918 - 3 Aug 2008)
Was born into a family that defied the Soviet anti-religious campaign in the 1920s
and remained devout members of the Russian Orthodox Church.
Place of birth: Kislovodsk
Citizenships: Soviet Russia, Soviet Union, United States, Russia
Education: Rostov State University

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Awards
Nobel Prize in Literature (1970)
Templeton Prize (1983)
Lomonosov Gold Medal (1998)
State Prize of the Russian Federation (2007)
International Botev Prize (2008)

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Famous works
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962)
Cancer Ward (1966)
In the First Circle (1968)
The Red Wheel (1971–1991)
The Gulag Archipelago (1973)
Two Hundred Years Together (2001–2002)

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Other Facts
WW2: Solzhenitsyn served as the commander of a sound-ranging battery in the
Red Army. He was awarded the Order of the Red Star on 8 July 1944 for soundranging two German artillery batteries and adjusting counterbattery fire onto them,
resulting in their destruction
Marriages: 7 April 1940, while at the university, Solzhenitsyn married Natalia
Alekseevna Reshetovskaya. In 1973, Solzhenitsyn married his second wife,
Natalia Dmitrievna Svetlova

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