Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Remember him
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
