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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Russian writer and historian (1918–2008).

Born December 11th, 1918 in Kislovodsk. [ref]

Died August 3rd, 2008 at 89 years old in Moscow (heart failure). [ref]

Occupations
historian, militant, military personnel, novelist, opinion journalist, playwright, poet, prosaist, public figure, schoolteacher, screenwriter, writer

Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years. Ausonius