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About Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Russian novelist Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn lived as a stateless person from 1974 until 1990 because he angered the Soviet Union’s leaders with the novels “August 1914”, “Cancer Ward” and “The Gulag Archipelago”.
A known vocal critic of the Soviet Union, the novelist and philosopher had previously been imprisoned in a labour camp and internally exiled for a total of eight years before losing his citizenship.
Family Life
He was the son of Isaakiy Semyonovich Solzhenitsyn and Taisiya Zakharovna. He married and divorced the same woman, Natalia Alekseevna Reshetovskaya, twice. After their second divorce, he married Natalia Dmitrievna Svetlova who later became the mother of his three sons. One of them is Ignat Solzhenitsyn, the Russian-American conductor and pianist.
Achievements
He was the recipient of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature. He also went on to win the Templeton Prize, State Prize of the Russian Federation and International Botev Prize.
Death
He passed away on August 3, 2008, from heart failure. He was 89.
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F.A.Q. about Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
When is his birthday?
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's birthday is on December 11, 1918.
In how many days is his birthday?
Alexander's birthday is in 232 days
How old was Alexander when he died?
He was 89 years old.
When did he die?
He died in August 3, 2008.
How old would he be today?
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn would be 105 years old if he was alive today.
Where was Alexander from?
He was born in Kislovodsk, Russia.