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  1. Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008) was a Russian writer and prominent Soviet dissident who helped to raise global awareness of political repression in the Soviet Union, especially the Gulag prison system.

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  2. Alexander Ivanovich Herzen ( Russian: Алекса́ндр Ива́нович Ге́рцен, romanized : Aleksándr Ivánovich Gértsen; 6 April [ O.S. 25 March] 1812 – 21 January [ O.S. 9 January] 1870) was a Russian writer and thinker known as the precursor of Russian socialism and one of the main precursors of agrarian populism (being an ideological ancestor of the Naro...

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  4. Autobiography written by Solzhenitsyn for the Nobel Prize Committee. Published in Stockholm, 1971. I was born on December 11, 1918, in Kislovodsk. My father, a student in the philology department of Moscow University, did not complete the required program be¬cause he volunteered for the army in 1914. He became an artillery officer on the ...

  5. Early life and throne ascension. Alexander was born in 23th December (O.S. 12 December) 1777 in Saint Petersburg. He was the eldest son of Tsar Paul I and one of Catherine the Great's grandchildren. In 1801, he began to reign Russia after his father Paul I was murdered.

  6. Aleksandr I Pavlovich ( Russian: Александр I Павлович) (December 23, 1777 – December 1, 1825) was emperor of Russia from March 23, 1801 – December 1, 1825 and king of Poland from 1815–1825, as well as the first Grand Duke of Finland.

  7. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008) Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is among the few Russian intellectuals whose names are known equally well in the West as in Russia. In July 1945, after serving on the front with the Red Army and receiving two military decorations, Solzhenitsyn was sentenced to eight years in a labor camp for criticizing Stalin in a ...

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