Russian Nobel prize novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn signs a copy of his book after arriving by train returning to his homeland as his wife Alya Svetlova looks on June 5, 1994 in Khabarovsk, Russia. Solzhenitsyn was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1974 but returned after the fall of the Soviet Union.

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Russian Nobel prize novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn signs a copy of his book after arriving by train returning to his homeland as his wife Alya Svetlova looks on June 5, 1994 in Khabarovsk, Russia. Solzhenitsyn was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1974 but returned after the fall of the Soviet Union.

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