Solzhenitsyn laid to rest in Moscow

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn has been laid to rest today in Donskoy monastery, closing an epoch in Russian literature and history. "It was the funeral Solzhenitsyn wanted - to be laid to rest at Moscow’s Donskoy...

Famous Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn dies at 89

Noble Prize winner and famous Russian author of the “Archipelago” Alexander Solzhenitsyn has died. It’s the end of an era. His chilling account of Soviet political repression in the book was painful and...

Solzhenitsyn passes away in Moscow

News just in:The Russian Gazeta is reporting the death of writer and Nobel Prize winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.  Initial reports suggest that he died of heart-failure.  He  was 89.This story has just...