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23/10/2005
Solzhenitsyn papers destroyed in fire
Papers belonging to author and former Soviet dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn have been destroyed in a fire at his country retreat.
The dacha outside Moscow was where Solzhenitsyn wrote The Gulag Archipelago, the account of his time in the Soviet prison camps system.
In 1970 Solzhenitsyn won the Nobel Prize for Literature. He returned to post-Soviet Russia in 1994 after 20 years' exile.
Russian newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets reported that there were rare photographs and writings about the writer's life burned during the fire at the dacha.
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