Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who died Sunday of heart failure at age 89, was a titan in Russian literature and politics of the 20th century. He survived the Stalinist purges, World War II, eight years in ...

CAVENDISH — The town of Cavendish will have an opportunity to honor the legacy of a former resident and renowned literary writer on Town Meeting Day. The town will decide whether to acquire the ...

I met Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn at his home in Vermont in 1993, through his eldest son, with whom I went to college. It was snowing hard, and he came in from the small separate house he used as his study ...

(The top right image comes courtesy of Edward Ericson, Jr. and should not be distributed without his prior consent.) The literary works of Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (Dec. 11, 1918–August 3, ...

Shortly after taking voluntary exile from the Soviet Union, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn settled on a 51-acre, fenced and wooded hillside estate in Cavendish, instantly becoming Vermont's best-known recluse ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Tuesday afternoon I walked into a small business establishment that employees a handful of Russian-American women. When I entered ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin led tributes on Monday to the late Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel literature laureate and prominent dissident of the Soviet era, saying his ...

Like many who lived in the Soviet Union in the 1970s, I have a personal relationship with Alexander Solzhenitsyn, whom I never met. It is one of boundless admiration. As a college student in Moscow, I ...

The great British historian Herbert Butterfield cautioned against the temptation to tell a neat story about historical events or discover “an unfolding logic” in them. History, he argued, is ...