Alexander Solzhenitsyn - writer, playwright, public figure. In the Soviet Union, he was recognized as a dissident. The writer spent many years in prison. Solzhenitsyn is a Nobel laureate.
early years
Alexander Isaevich was born on December 11, 1918. His hometown is Kislovodsk. Alexander's father was a peasant, participated in the First World War. He died in the hunt before the birth of his son. Sasha's mother was the daughter of a wealthy landowner. But the family became poor after the revolution and civil war. Subsequently, they lived in Rostov-on-Don.
Solzhenitsyn was brought up in religious traditions, he wore a cross, did not want to be a pioneer. Later, Sasha changed his views, joined the Komsomol. As a high school student, he became interested in literature. He really liked Russian classics. However, after graduating from school, Alexander entered the University of the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics, where he became one of the best graduates.
During his student years, Solzhenitsyn became interested in theater, tried to get into a theater school, but unsuccessfully. Then he entered the University of Moscow at the Faculty of Literature, but did not graduate due to the war.
Solzhenitsyn tried to go to the front as a volunteer, but because of health problems he was not taken. However, he managed to get on officer courses. Alexander became a lieutenant, he was enrolled in artillery. Solzhenitsyn received several orders for his success.
Arrest
During the war, Solzhenitsyn became disillusioned with Stalin, about which he wrote to his friend Vitkevich Nikolai. The letters fell to the leadership of military censorship. For dissatisfaction with the authorities, Solzhenitsyn was arrested and sent to Lubyanka, and then sentenced to 7 years in prison and exile.
Alexander worked at a construction site, and then was a mathematician in a prison subordinate to a closed bureau. After a conflict with the leadership of Solzhenitsyn, they were sent to a common camp in Kazakhstan. After his release, he began to work as a mathematics teacher in the village of Berlik (South Kazakhstan).
Creative biography
In 1956, the case was reviewed, Solzhenitsyn was allowed to return to Russia. He began to work as a teacher in Ryazan. He began to write in prison. Having published some works, Solzhenitsyn decided to devote time only to literary work.
Due to anti-Stalinist motifs in the works, the writer's work was supported by Nikita Khrushchev. However, under Brezhnev, Solzhenitsyn’s books were banned.
The works of Alexander Isaevich published in France and the United States (without the knowledge of the writer). The authorities of the USSR saw in the works a threat to the social order. The writer was invited to emigrate, but he refused. However, in 1974 Solzhenitsyn was stripped of his citizenship and expelled from the country.
Later, Alexander Isaevich lived in the United States, Switzerland, Germany, receiving royalties for publishing works. He also founded the Foundation, which helped the persecuted and their families. Under Gorbachev, the attitude towards the writer changed, and Yeltsin persuaded him to return, transferring the state dacha in Trinity-Lykov to his property.
Alexander Isaevich died on August 2, 2008, the cause was heart failure. Before that, he was seriously ill.
