Alexander Solzhenitsyn died!

[silveredmadness]

:( This is a sadness.

The  Gulag Archipelago was one of the most heartbreaking, eye-opening and strangely, disturbingly beautiful things I have ever read.

The world has lost another great man.

ETA : I didn't realize he'd lived in Vermont while in exile from Russia.  I'm unsurprised. All the cool people love my home state.

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[silveredmadness]

I only really know of him because of my obsession with Russian history.

His books are pretty amazing (and dark) though.