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Photograph Solzhenitsyn exhibit opened at the Solzhenitsyn Cultural Center in Paris. The showcase presents photographs made by author of the GULAG Archipelago in different years.
The event is dated with coming centennial of Nobel Prize laureate tomorrow, December 11.
As a part of observing life around him, the write developed particular interest in photography. During many years he made pictures of places and people, among them were future protagonists of his novels. For example, there's a photograph of Matryona, inhabitant of Miltzevo village of Vladimir region. This person has inspired Solzhenitsyn's Matryona's Place novella.
Solzhenitsyn Cultural Center in Paris opened in 2017 in the oldest Russian bookshop abroad Les Éditeurs Réunis. This bookshop was a part of a publishing agency that has issued 1 volume of the GULAG Archipelago in 1974, and later The Red Wheel. 2018 centennial of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is giving rise to numerous exhibits, conferences, publications and concerts in Paris and other cities and countries.
Inhabitants of the US town of Cavendish where the writer lived 18 years before returning to Russia, drafted a joint address to the Russian people. The message says that the Solzhenitsyn family was much respected among the people.
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