As per our current Database, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn has been died on Aug 3, 2008 (age 89).
When Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn die, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was 89 years old.
Popular As | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn |
Occupation | Novelist |
Age | 89 years old |
Zodiac Sign | Sagittarius |
Born | December 11, 1918 (Kislovodsk, Russia) |
Birthday | December 11 |
Town/City | Kislovodsk, Russia |
Nationality | Russia |
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s zodiac sign is Sagittarius. According to astrologers, Sagittarius is curious and energetic, it is one of the biggest travelers among all zodiac signs. Their open mind and philosophical view motivates them to wander around the world in search of the meaning of life. Sagittarius is extrovert, optimistic and enthusiastic, and likes changes. Sagittarius-born are able to transform their thoughts into concrete actions and they will do anything to achieve their goals.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was born in the Year of the Horse. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Horse love to roam free. They’re energetic, self-reliant, money-wise, and they enjoy traveling, love and intimacy. They’re great at seducing, sharp-witted, impatient and sometimes seen as a drifter. Compatible with Dog or Tiger.
Russian Historian, Novelist, and social critic whose most famous works include The Gulag Archipelago, Two Hundred Years Together, and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. His literary work exposed the evils of the Soviet Gulag's forced labor camp system to an international audience.
He attended Rostov State University, where he studied mathematics. He went on to serve in the Red Army during World War II. From the mid-1940s through the early 1950s, he was imprisoned in Russian labor camps for his private criticism of Stalin (discovered when government officials confiscated his letters to a friend).
He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1970 for One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. The same work was responsible for his exile from the Soviet Union in 1974.
He married his first wife, Natalia Alekseevna Reshetovskaya, prior to his Gulag sentence. He later wed Natalia Dmitrievna Svetlova. He had three sons, Ignat, Yermolai and Stepan.
He and T.S. Eliot were both recipients of the Nobel Prize for Literature.