1942-53: War, Prison, Camp

 

2.1┆  As student at the Leningrad Artillery Institute.
Kostroma, July 1942

2.2┆  Lieutenant Solzhenitsyn—commander of a sound-ranging battery.
Ostashkov, March 1943

2.3┆ Battery commander A. Solzhenitsyn and commander of artillery reconnaissance division E. Pshechenko.
February 1943

2.4┆ Nikolai Vitkevich (author's close university friend) and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Tyurino village (near Novosil).
May 1943

2.5┆ Artillery reconnaissance officers. Captain Solzhenitsyn is seated in middle row, far left.
Autumn 1944

2.6┆ As prisoner on a construction site near Kaluga Gate.
Moscow, June 1946

2.7┆ The "Marfino" sharashka (secret research prison).  Prisoner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn worked here from 1947 to 1950.

2.8┆ As prisoner at the "Marfino" sharashka. Official photo in a suit and tie provided by the prison.
December 1948

2.9┆ Newly exiled Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in prisoner garb and number "Shch-262". 
Kok-Terek, Kazakhstan, March 1953