A decade after death, Solzhenitsyn draws a blank with young Russians | Lifestyle.INQ

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn (C) receives a loaf of traditional Russian bread after arriving at Vladivostok airport. A poll last year by state pollster VTsIOM on Russians' "idols" from the 20th century put Solzhenitsyn fifth, behind such figures. Image: AFP/Yuri Kadobnov
Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (C) receives a loaf of traditional Russian bread after arriving at Vladivostok airport. A poll last year by state pollster VTsIOM on Russians’ “idols” from the 20th century put Solzhenitsyn fifth, behind such figures. Image: AFP/Yuri Kadobnov

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