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 exhilarating experience. His first book Novella Denisovich about the life a Gulag prisoner catapulted into limelight immediately after Stalin Political era. He was put behind bar for denouncing Stalin.  Considered by a section of Russian as Traitor for his writing he wrote three volumes of Archipelago, a detailed account of the systematic Soviet abuses from 1918 to 1956 in the vast network of its prison and labour camps. His book was published in the West. 

Russian government was so irked after the first volume of the his book that it stripped him of citizenship and he was forced to settled in USA where he finished the remaining two volume. His homecoming in 1994 was a dramatic affair as he entered from far east corner of Russia and travelled whole Russia by land before settling down in his hometown.