Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Алекса́ндр Солжени́цын) (1918-2008)


Death: 3rd August 2008
Location: Donskoy Monastery Necropolis, Moscow, Russia
Cause of death: Heart Failure
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Russian novelist, dramatist,and historian. Through his writings, he made the world aware of the Gulag, the Soviet labour camp system, and for these efforts, Solzhenitsyn was both awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970 and exiled from the Soviet Union in 1974. He returned to Russia in 1994.

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