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Behind every great man ...(letters to the editor)(Letter to the editor)
Thank you for the obituary of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ("The Week," September 1). I'm grateful that you remember his work and write appreciatively of his life.
However, I'd like to point out that you extend sympathy only to his sons. Not only is his widow, Natalya, alive, but she was a vital partner in his life and work. Their sons were children, two of them still less than two years old, when the KGB invaded their home in 1974 and took Solzhenitsyn away by force.
Solzhenitsyn writes about his wife in the final paragraphs of The Oak and the Calf:
She now had to ... transfer to Switzerland by land, sea, or air my whole enormous archive, including twelve years of preparatory materials ... without losing a single piece of paper, not even an ordinary file folder, and put it all in the same drawers of the same desk when it arrived. On the way, ...
- Natalya Solzhenitsyn says husband sometimes blamed in Russia for current state...
- Newspaper article from: Herald & Review (Decatur, IL) June 27, 2007 700+ words
...expose tyranny in his homeland, Natalya Solzhenitsyn said some Russians partially blame...perceived as being taken care of," Natalya Solzhenitsyn said, during an interview at the...stable way of life, she said. Natalya Solzhenitsyn, editor and spokeswoman for her...
- DEATHS
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post March 24, 1994 700+ words
...and restored motorcycles in his own shop in New York, was born in Russia. He was 14 in 1976 when his mother, Natalya Solzhenitsyn, his stepfather, and three younger half brothers moved to Cavendish, Vt., two years after Alexander Solzhenitsyn...
- Russian Television Cancels Solzhenitsyn Talk-Show
- Transcript from: NPR Morning Edition September 26, 1995 700+ words
...She links it to the beginning of a fierce campaign for December's parliamentary elections. According to Natalya Solzhenitsyn, the government doesn't want to hear the truth. Solzhenitsyn and his supporters aren't alone in fearing...
- Secret documents that Solzhenitsyn left
- Newspaper article from: The Independent - London JULIAN NUNDY May 28, 1994 700+ words
...friends and supporters, including Andrei Sakharov, ate a snack of toasted green cheese in the Gorky Street kitchen as Natalya, Solzhenitsyn's young wife, waited for news. When it came, a KGB colonel - she used to call him "my colonel" - was appointed...
