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Exile of Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Russia · Arts / Literature. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

7Records
1953–1994Date range
1Named people
3Places

Chronological records

1953

Alexander Solzhenitsyn1953

Kok-Terek · Arts / Literature

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

1974

Alexander Solzhenitsyn13 February 1974

Frankfurt · Arts / Literature

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

Alexander Solzhenitsyn1974

Arts / Literature

Expelled from Russia & deprived of his citizenship

1976

Alexander Solzhenitsyn1976

Cavendish · Arts / Literature

Solzhenitsyn moves to Cavendish, Vermont

1978

Alexander Solzhenitsyn8 June 1978

Arts / Literature

Gives his Commencement Address condemning modern western culture

1990

Alexander Solzhenitsyn1990

Arts / Literature

Soviet citizenship is restored

1994

Alexander Solzhenitsyn1994

Arts / Literature

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

Names involved

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Provenance

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