Solzhenitsyn

by Paul E. Richardson

This morning, Vermont Public Radio called to interview me about Solzhenitsyn's legacy and his life in Vermont. I had just interviewed his wife, Natalya Dmitrievna, while in Moscow in May. We had planned to run that interview in our Nov/Dec issue, to coincide with what would have been the author's 90th birthday. But now we will push it up and run it in our Sep/Oct issue, which goes to press this week.

Here is the link to the interview on VPR website.

A nice article also appeared in the local Times-Argus here, summarizing Solzhenitsyn's interaction with the local community of Cavendish.

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On This Day

Notable events on this day in Russian history

1762: Catherine II was crowned at the Assumption Cathedral in Moscow

1917: Bolsheviks won control of the Petrograd Soviet

1935: Service Categories, introduced in 1924 after officer ranks were eliminated, were eliminated in the Red Army. Ranks were introduced that were a mixture of the service categories and more typical rank names.

1957: Peter Aleshkovsky, writer, born.

1998: US and Russia signed agreements to privatize Russia's nuclear progam and to stop plutonium stockpiles and nuclear scientists from leaving the country.