Alexander Solzhenitsyn Biography

Birth of Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Arrested for writing a derogatory comment in a letter to a friend, ND Utkevich, about the conduct of the war by Josef Stalin, whom he called "the whiskered one". Accused of anti-Soviet propaganda under Article 58 of the Soviet criminal code, paragraph 10, and of "founding a hostile organisation" under paragraph 11

Solzhenitsyn is taken to the Lubyanka prison in Moscow, where he is beaten and interrogated

Sentenced in his absence by a three-man tribunal of the Soviet security police (NKGB) to an eight-year term in a labour camp, to be followed by permanent internal exile

Sentenced in his absence by a three-man tribunal of the Soviet security police (NKGB) to an eight-year term in a labour camp, to be followed by permanent internal exile

Sentenced in his absence by a three-man tribunal of the Soviet security police (NKGB) to an eight-year term in a labour camp, to be followed by permanent internal exile

Solzhenitsyn begins a sentence of internal exile for life at Kok-Terek in southern Kazakhstan

Treated in a hospital in Tashkent, where he was cured cured of cancer

Publication of "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich". Publication of "A Day In the Life of Ivan Denisovich", with the explicit approval of Nikita Khrushchev, brings the Soviet system of prison labour to the attention of the West

Publication of "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich". Publication of "A Day In the Life of Ivan Denisovich", with the explicit approval of Nikita Khrushchev, brings the Soviet system of prison labour to the attention of the West

Publication of "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich". Publication of "A Day In the Life of Ivan Denisovich", with the explicit approval of Nikita Khrushchev, brings the Soviet system of prison labour to the attention of the West

Publication of "An Incident at Krechetovka Station"

Publication of "For the Good of the Cause"

Publication of "The First Circle". Publication of "Cancer Ward"

Publication of "The First Circle". Publication of "Cancer Ward"

Publication of "The First Circle". Publication of "Cancer Ward"

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, could not receive the prize personally in Stockholm at that time, since he was afraid he would not be let back into the Soviet Union

Publication of August 1914.

Publication of "The Gulag Archipelago" three volumes, 1973-1978. Publication of "The Gulag Archipelago"

Publication of "The Gulag Archipelago" three volumes, 1973-1978. Publication of "The Gulag Archipelago"

Expelled from Russia & deprived of his citizenship

Solzhenitsyn is deported from the Russia to Frankfurt, West Germany and stripped of his Soviet citizenship, Solzhenitsyn lives in Heinrich Bulls house

Solzhenitsyn moves to Cavendish, Vermont

Given an honorary Literary Degree from Harvard University

Gives his Commencement Address condemning modern western culture

Soviet citizenship is restored

Solzhenitsyn publishes eight two-part short stories, a series of contemplative "miniatures" or prose poems, a literary memoir on his years in the West, "The Grain Between the Millstones"

Returns to Russia with his wife, Natalia, who had become a United States citizen

Solzhenitsyn publishes eight two-part short stories, a series of contemplative "miniatures" or prose poems, a literary memoir on his years in the West, "The Grain Between the Millstones"

Solzhenitsyn publishes eight two-part short stories, a series of contemplative "miniatures" or prose poems, a literary memoir on his years in the West, "The Grain Between the Millstones"

Publishes a two-volume work on the history of Russian-Jewish relations, "Two Hundred Years Together"

Publishes a two-volume work on the history of Russian-Jewish relations, "Two Hundred Years Together"

Russian President Vladimir Putin signing a decree conferring the State Prize of the Russian Federation for the humanitarian work of Solzhenitsyn

President Putin personally visits the writer at his home to give him the award

Death of Alexander Solzhenitsyn