Even during high school, Solzhenitsyn planned on writing an epic novel about the Revolution. His childhood was inevitably marked by the political upheavals of the time. Solzhenitsyn was given an eight-year sentence.Īlexander Solzhenitsyn was a child of both the Revolution (1917) and the ensuing Civil War in the Soviet Union. But in 1945, he was arrested unexpectedly for writing anti-Stalinist comments in a letter to a friend. There, he served bravely, earning several medals and a promotion to captain. Soon after his graduation in 1941, the Soviet Union was drawn into World War II, and Solzhenitsyn was conscripted into the army. In 1940, Solzhenitsyn married his high school sweetheart, Natalya Reshetvskaya. But his desire to be a writer drove him to take literature classes in Moscow while he pursued his studies in the Sciences. He decided to stay nearby at Rostov University, where he studied Mathematics and Physics.
Growing up in the industrial city of Rostov with his mother, Solzhenitsyn was a gifted student, but his mother's failing health and a lack of money dashed his hopes of attending a university in Moscow. Solzhenitsyn's father died in a hunting accident six months before his birth. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Author/ContextĪlexander (Sanya) Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was born in Kislovodsk, southern Russia, on December 11th, 1918.
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