Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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dissident historian human novelist political prisoner

Alexander Solzhenitsyn was a Russian novelist, historian, and dissident whose works exposing the brutality of the Soviet Gulag system, such as "The Gulag Archipelago," earned him international acclaim and the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Aliases (4)

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ×2
Alexander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn ×1
Solzhenitsyn ×1
Алекса́ндр Иса́евич Солжени́цын ×1

Statements (63)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	dissident → historian → human → novelist → political prisoner →
awardReceived	Nobel Prize in Literature → State Prize of the Russian Federation → Templeton Prize →
burialPlace	Donskoy Monastery cemetery, Moscow →
causeOfDeath	heart failure →
conflict	World War II →
countryOfBirth	Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic →
countryOfCitizenship	Russia → Soviet Union →
countryOfDeath	Russia →
dateOfBirth	1918-12-11 →
dateOfDeath	2008-08-03 →
educatedAt	Moscow State University (external studies) → Rostov State University →
familyName	Solzhenitsyn →
fieldOfWork	Russian history → literature → political commentary →
fullName	Alexander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn →
gender	male →
genre	autobiographical literature → historical fiction → political literature →
givenName	Alexander →
imprisonedBy	Soviet authorities →
influenced	global human rights discourse →
knownFor	criticism of Soviet totalitarianism → exposing the Soviet Gulag system →
languageOfWorkOrName	Russian →
militaryBranch	Red Army →
movement	Russian literature → dissident movement in the Soviet Union →
nativeName	Алекса́ндр Иса́евич Солжени́цын →
NobelPrizeInLiteratureYear	1970 →
notableWork	August 1914 → Cancer Ward → One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich → The First Circle → The Gulag Archipelago →
numberOfChildren	3 →
occupation	essayist → historian → novelist → playwright → short story writer → teacher → writer →
placeOfBirth	Kislovodsk →
placeOfDeath	Moscow →
religion	Russian Orthodox Church →
residence	Vermont →
returnedTo	Russia →
spouse	Natalya Reshetovskaya → Natalya Svetlova →
subjectOf	Soviet censorship →
wasExiledTo	Switzerland → United States →
yearOfReturnToRussia	1994 →

Referenced by (7)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
The Gulag Archipelago ("Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn") →	author
Gulag system ("Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn") →	documentedBy
Alexander Solzhenitsyn ("Solzhenitsyn") →	familyName
Alexander Solzhenitsyn ("Alexander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn") →	fullName
Alexander Solzhenitsyn ("Алекса́ндр Иса́евич Солжени́цын") →	nativeName
Soviet literature →	notableAuthor
Templeton Prize →	notableRecipient