[What's New for Book-Lovers] olzhenitsyn papers destroyed as dacha goes up in flames

October 18, 2005 by wfzimmerman | No comments

Guardian Unlimited Books | News | Solzhenitsyn papers destroyed as old retreat goes up in flames:

A fire has destroyed the country cottage where Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the former Soviet dissident, wrote some of his most famous works and stored part of his family’s archive.

The dacha near the village of Rodzhestvo, outside Moscow, was acquired by Solzhenitsyn in 1965. The dissident retreated there after his expulsion from the Soviet Union Of Writers and wrote the seminal account of his time in the Soviet prison camps system, The Gulag Archipelago. Solzhenitsyn won the Nobel prize for literature in 1970 and returned to post-Soviet Russia in 1994 after 20 years’ exile.

sad. I would have liked to see the place where Solzhenitysn wrote THE GULAG ARCHIPELAGO.

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