Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, R.I.P. by Ellis Washington

Now he belongs to the Ages.

– Edwin M. Stanton, secretary of war. Epitaph uttered at Lincoln's death bed, April 15, 1865

Prologue

I, like many lovers of great literature, was deeply saddened by the headline on the New York Times last Monday, "Reverence but no outpouring for Solzhenitsyn." Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) Russian dramatist, novelist, historian, was a prolific writer and a gargantuan intellect. His magnum opus is his legendary – "The Gulag Archipelago" (3 vols., 1973-78).

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