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1967-73: Persecution
6.1┆ Korney Chukovsky at his desk.
1960s
6.2┆ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
Credit: Eduard Gladkov
1967
6.3┆ Elena ("Lyusha") Chukovskaya.
Granddaughter of Kornei Chukovsky.
1960s
6.4┆ Arnold Susi, Marta Port and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
These and other allies helped shelter Solzhenitsyn while he secretly wrote "The Gulag Archipelago" in Estonian hiding.
Estonia, 1966
6.5┆ Lev Kopelev, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Dmitri Panin.
Author's close friends, who were the prototypes of In the First Circle characters (Kopelev=Rubin; Solzhenitsyn=Nerzhin; Panin=Sologdin.)
Moscow region, August 1968
6.6┆ Mstislav Rostropovich and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
Rozhdestvo-na-Istie, Summer 1969
6.7┆ At the chapel of St. Artyom the Righteous, on the Pinega River.
Credit: Natalia Svetlova (Solzhenitsyn)
1969
6.8┆ Natalia (second wife) and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
1972
6.9┆ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn with his first son, Yermolai. Last summer on native soil.
Firsanovka, 1973
6.10┆ Lydia Korneevna Chukovskaya, daughter of Kornei Chukovsky.
1960s
6.11┆ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn with his older sons, Yermolai (right) and Ignat (left).
CREDIT: CHRISTOPHER OGDEN
1973