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Nobel Prize-winning Russian author, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, died of heart failure near Moscow, Russia, on 8/3/2008
Screen shot of Alexander Solzhenitsyn on Russian Television during his biweekly television program broadcast in Russia in 1995. Nobel Prize-winning author Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) became an ally of former Russian President Vladimir Putin after returning to Russia in 1994. Solzhenitsyn author of ‘The Gulag Archipelago’ and ‘One day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch’, died near Moscow, Russia, in 2008 at the age of 89. Photo by Chuck Nacke
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Location: Russian Television, Moscow, Russia
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