2. Childhood
Alexander Isayevich was born on December
11st, 1918 in Kislovodsk, in the family of cossacks.
His father was killed in the hunt six months before
the birth of his son. Alexander's mother was from
the family of a wealthy landowner.
3. Solzhenitsyn entered
Rostov University.
In October 1941 he
was joined the army.
Initially he was just a
soldier, and then became
a lieutenant.
In 1943 he received
the Order of the Patriotic
War of the second
degree and the next - the
Order of the Red Star
4. 1945
In February
1945, for
criticizing the
actions of
Joseph Stalin in
personal letters
Alexander
Solzhenitsyn
was arrested
and sentenced
to 8 years of
forced labor
camps.
5. 1953
In February 1953 was
released without the right of
residence in the European
part of the USSR and he was
sent to permament
exile(1953-1956); he lived in
the village of Kok-Terek
Jambul Region.
In February 1956 the
Supreme Court of the USSR
rehabilitated Alexander
Solzhenitsyn and he moved
to Ryazan. There he worked
as a mathematics teacher.
6. In September 1965 Solzhenitsyn’s archive got
into the State Security Committee and the
publication of his works in the USSR was
discontinued.
In November 1969 Solzhenitsyn was expelled
from the Union of Writers.
In 1970, Alexander Solzhenitsyn won the
Nobel Prize.
7. In 1974, after the publication in Paris a book
The Gulag Archipelago dissident writer was
arrested. In 1974, after the publication in Paris a
book The Gulag Archipelago dissident writer
was arrested. February 12, 1974 held court
Alexander Solzhenitsyn was convicted of high
treason, stripped of his citizenship and
sentenced to expulsion from the USSR the next
day.
8. Despite the fact that Solzhenitsyn lived for
about 20 years in the U.S., he did not ask for the
U.S. citizenship. He criticized both the Soviet order
and American reality. During 20 years of exile in
Germany, the USA and in France he published a
lot of works. In the USSR, Solzhenitsyn began to
be published in the late 1980s.
9. In August 1990, by presidential decree of the
USSR Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s Soviet citizenship
was restored. In 1990 for his book The Gulag
Archipelago Solzhenitsyn was awarded the State
Prize. In May 1994 the writer returned to Russia.
In 1997 he was elected a member of the
Academy of Sciences of the Russian Federation.
10. In August 1990, by presidential decree of the
USSR Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s Soviet citizenship
was restored. In 1990 for his book The Gulag
Archipelago Solzhenitsyn was awarded the State
Prize. In May 1994 the writer returned to Russia.
In 1997 he was elected a member of the
Academy of Sciences of the Russian Federation.
