Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

About the Author

His earliest years coincided with the Russian Civil War. By the year 1930 the family property was turned into a collective farm. Later on, he recalled that his mom fought for survival and that they needed to keep his dad’s background in the old Imperial Army secret. His educated mom, who never remarried, encouraged his scientific and literary learnings and raised him in the Russian Orthodox faith. By as early as 1936, he began developing the concepts and characters for his planned epic work on the Russian Revolution and World War One. This eventually led to the novel “August 1914”, with some of the chapters that he wrote still surviving. He studied physics and mathematics at Rostov State University. At this time he was also taking correspondence courses from the Moscow Institute of Philoso. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is the author of over 39 books across 8 series. Their most famous work is the Publication Order of The Red Wheel Books series, which has garnered millions of readers worldwide. With such a prolific career, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn has established themselves as one of the most influential authors in contemporary fiction.