Tuesday afternoon I walked into a small business establishment that employees a handful of Russian-American women. When I entered and asked if everyone were talking about Solzhenitsyn, I was told bemusedly, “No, the Russians are too busy working and the young don’t know who he is.”

And then back to work they went.

For the rest of us — and for those women and the young most especially — here is a list of recent remembrances, Solzhenitsyn links from the last three days:

Moscow Times: Solzhenitsyn, chronicler of  labor camps dies at 89

New York Times/Michael Kaufman: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn dies at 89

Russians Mourn Dissident Writer Solzhenitsyn:

A funeral service will take place at the medieval Donskoi monastery in Moscow on Wednesday and Solzhenitsyn will be buried there later that day in accordance with his will, said a Russian Orthodox church spokesman……

Solzhenitsyn was a great and important man: National Review

Remembering Aleksander Solzhenitsyn: Len Grossman, TIME

Alexander Solzhenitsyn 1918-2008: St. Louis Post-Dispatch/Civil Religion blog/Scott Lamb

Russia: Solzhenitsyn initiated many good undertakings and faced trials with dignity:

Moscow, August 4, Interfax - Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Russia condoles with the widow of the late Alexander Solzhenitsyn who died late on Sunday.

“I offer my sincere condolences to you, his children, relatives and close ones. Please, accept the words of sympathy and support on the day of severe loss,” Alexy II statement reads…..

Washington Post/Anne Applebaum: Stronger than the Gulag:

Although more than three decades have passed since the winter of 1974, when unbound, hand-typed samizdat versions of Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s “The Gulag Archipelago” began circulating in what used to be the Soviet Union, the emotions they stirred remain today.

Usually, readers were given only 24 hours to finish the lengthy manuscript — the first-ever historical account of the Soviet concentration camp system — before it had to be passed on to the next person.

That meant spending an entire day and night absorbed in Solzhenitsyn’s sometimes eloquent, sometimes angry prose, not an experience anyone was likely to forget…..

Washington Post/John Mark Reynolds: Solzhenitsyn the Prophet

Canada/National Post/Fr. Raymond J. de Souza: A Soldier for Morality:

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Russian Nobel laureate who died Sunday, was born in 1918, a year after Lenin’s revolution hijacked a historic nation in service of a corrupt modern ideology.

Solzhenitsyn would outlive communism in Russia; the Soviet Union died in 1991, the Russian patriot in 2008…..

UK/The Independent: Solzhenitsyn: His final interview

Allentown Morning Call: Solzhenitsyn: 1978 Harvard commencement adress

Washington Post: Solzhenitsyn: 1974 essay ‘Live Not by Lies’

Albert Mohler: The Death of Solzhenitsyn: “One Word of Truth Will Outweigh the Whole World”

Rich Lowry: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: Moral Giant

“This is dangerous.” — Soviet apparatchik Yuri Andropov, upon learning of “The Gulag Archipelago”

Andropov knew whereof he spoke. When Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s three-volume chronicle of the Soviet prison system appeared in the West in the early 1970s, it delivered a decisive blow to the moral standing of Soviet communism…..

WSJournal: Of Good and Evil

Chicago Tribune: Solzhenitsyn’s Truth

Paul Weyrich: A Tribute to Alexander Solzhenitsyn

AP: Small Vermont town has fond memories of Solzhenitsyn

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — When Alexander Solzhenitsyn sought refuge in the West, he looked for a place whose forested hillsides and harsh winters evoked his Russian homeland, and where residents had an ethic of respecting one another’s privacy. The southern Vermont town of Cavendish was just the spot.

FIRST THINGS/Amanda Shaw: Aleksander Solzhenitsyn, 1918-2008

…..His life project, one might say, was to reveal physical and spiritual captivity, to free the soul from barbed wire…..

SLATE/Christopher Hitchens: The Fortitude of Alexander Solzhenitsyn

LifeSite:Modern day prophet, moral crusader, critic of both West and East:

He stated, “A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today…..”

St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Putin, Russians Brave Rain to Mourn Solzhenitsyn

Jonah Goldberg: Forgetting the evils of Communism