Solzhenitsyn Dies

Larry August 04, 2008 Doodles 1 Comment

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Ball point pen on the morning newsprint

Growing up, I had a Great Uncle Nick who would captivate us with the tales of how he and his family escaped from Russia as a boy; Alexander Solzhenitsyn wasn’t as fortunate. Having survived eight years in a Russian gulag, his Nobel Prize winning books chronicle the horrors of Stalin’s slave labor camps. Solzhenitsyn died yesterday. He was 89.

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One Response to “Solzhenitsyn Dies”

  1. a brush with color said:

    Aug 04, 08 at 4:37 pm

    I saw that first thing this morning and was sad. I read both “A Day in the Life…” and the “Gulag…” Both were amazing and made me realize just how fortunate I was to be, by the accident of my birth, an American. Glorious portrait of him here! You’ve managed to make him look soft. Quite a life he led…