2047. Materials about A.I. Solzhenitsyn. 1. Reshetovskaya N. A. "Forgotten ...". [Memories of A. I. Solzhenitsyn]. 1970. Typescript, not 1st copy, handwritten. editing and editorial notes. Here: separate chapters: "Newlyweds", "Deducted according to a personal statement"; 2. Speech by lawyer E. B. Alekseeva at the divorce proceedings of A. I. Solzhenitsyn and N. A. Reshetovskaya on July 27, 1972 (typewritten, not 1st copy); 3. Letter from A. V. Berner to the editor-in-chief of the magazine "Youth" A. Dementiev in connection with the publication of the memoirs of G. P. Vishnevskaya "Solzhenitsyn and Rostropovich" in Zh. "Youth" (1989, Nos. 6, 7; typescript, 2 copies).

Names (5)

Vishnevskaya (Ivanova) Galina Pavlovna, упоминаемое лицо
Definition: Opera singer, teacher, people. artist of the USSR, in the late 1960s. provided support to A.I. Solzhenitsyn in 1974. left the USSR with her husband Rostrapovich M.L.
Years of life: Род. 1926
Reshetovskaya Natalya Alekseevna, автор
Years of life: 1919-2003
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The first wife of Alexander Isaevich Solzhenitsyn, author of memoirs about him. Born in Novocherkassk in 1919. Her father died in 1925. Mom, Maria Konstantinovna, was a teacher. In 1926, the family moved to Rostov-on-Don, where Reshetovskaya studied at school, then entered the university at the Faculty of Chemistry.
In the fall of 1936, she met Solzhenitsyn. On April 27, 1940, she married him. In 1940 she entered graduate school at Moscow State University, and in 1944 she defended her Ph.D. thesis. In May 1944, I went to see my husband at the front. In February 1945 Solzhenitsyn A.I. was arrested. At the end of 1948, Reshetovskaya divorced him in absentia and remarried. And Reshetovskaya’s mother, Maria Konstantinovna, continued to collect parcels for Solzhenitsyn in the camp and wrote letters to him. In 1949, she headed the department of chemistry at the Ryazan Agricultural Institute. In 1956, she met Solzhenitsyn with friends in Moscow, who had returned from post-camp exile in Kazakhstan. I came to see him at his place of work in the Vladimir region. In 1957, Solzhenitsyn came to her in Ryazan and the same year they got married again. Reshetovskaya and Solzhenitsyn have been living in Ryazan for 12 years. In 1969, Solzhenitsyn left Reshetovskaya. Reshetovskaya began writing memoirs while still married to Solzhenitsyn. In 1996 she was admitted to the Writers' Union of Russia. She died in Moscow in 2003. She was buried in Ryazan.
Rostropovich Mstislav Leopoldovich, упоминаемое лицо
Definition: Soviet and Russian cellist, pianist and conductor, public figure, human rights defender, teacher
Years of life: 1927-2007
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People's Artist of the USSR (1966). Laureate of the Lenin Prize (1964), Stalin Prize of the second degree (1951) and two State Prizes of Russia (1991, 1995).
Solzhenitsyn Alexander Isaevich, упоминаемое лицо
Definition: Russian writer, publicist, historian, public and political figure. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1970).
Years of life: 1918-2008
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Alexander Isaevich Solzhenitsyn was born on December 11, 1918 in Kislovodsk. In 1941 he graduated from the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of Rostov University. In 1939-1941. In parallel with physics, he studied at the correspondence department of the Moscow Institute of History, Philosophy and Literature. In the winter of 1941-42. - in the army, sled driver. He graduated from the artillery school course. From November 1942 to February 1945 - at the front, commander of a reconnaissance artillery battery. In 1945, he was arrested on the basis of censored extracts from correspondence with a school friend, mainly for disrespectful statements about Stalin, as well as for sketches of stories and arguments. Sentenced by the decision of the Special Meeting of the NKVD to 8 years in the camps. He first served his term in mixed-type forced labor camps; in 1946, as a mathematician, he was transferred to the “sharashki” - a system of research institutes of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of State Security, where prisoners worked.
In 1950 he was transferred to special camps for political prisoners. In such a camp in the city of Ekibastuz in Kazakhstan, he worked as a laborer, mason, and foundry worker. At the end of the camp term he was not released and was sent to “eternal exile” in Kok-Terek in Kazakhstan. During his years of exile, he taught mathematics and physics at a rural school and secretly began to write. In April 1956, exile for those convicted under Art. 58 was cancelled, leaving for Moscow in June. Since August 1956 - rural teacher in the Vladimir region. Rehabilitated.
Since June 1957 he has lived in Ryazan, working as a physics and astronomy teacher at school N2. Continues to write secretly. In 1961 he emerged from the literary underground. In November 1962, his story about the camps “One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich” was published in the magazine “New World”; the publication was a real sensation. He continues to work on works about the era of mass terror in the USSR, creates an entire network for the secret storage of his manuscripts and archives, to collect information about prisons, camps, exiles, and deportations. Sends some of the manuscripts to the West. Published in Samizdat and abroad. In 1969, he was expelled from the Writers' Union. In October 1970, Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. The persecution of the writer by the KGB and party bodies is unfolding. In December 1973, the first volume of The Gulag Archipelago was published in Paris. Threats, open surveillance, harassment in the Soviet press. In February 1974, Solzhenitsyn was arrested and a criminal case was opened under Art. 64 (“Treason to the Motherland”). On February 13, the KGB deported him to Germany. The Supreme Soviet of the USSR announces the deprivation of the writer of Soviet citizenship.
In exile, Solzhenitsyn wrote a number of new works. During the era of “perestroika”, in 1988, Solzhenitsyn’s publications began again in the USSR. In August 1989, Novy Mir in Moscow began publishing The Gulag Archipelago.
In October 1990, Solzhenitsyn was awarded the title of honorary citizen of the city of Ryazan. In September 1991, the Prosecutor General's Office announced the termination of the 1974 case against Solzhenitsyn. In 1994, Solzhenitsyn made his triumphant return to Russia. He was awarded several Russian orders and a State Prize. In Russia he continues to work a lot on a series of works about the Russian revolution. On August 3, 2008, Alexander Solzhenitsyn died in his home near Moscow. He was buried in the cemetery of the Donskoy Monastery in Moscow.
Berner Anna Voldemarovna, автор
Definition: Employee of the Research Center "Memorial"
Years of life: 1912-2002
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Genus. in 1912 in St. Petersburg, in the family of a railway engineer. She graduated from the Leningrad Hydrotechnical School in 1934 and went to work at the Hydroproject Institute. My father worked in the Urals. He was soon arrested under the “Yezhov order” and later died in custody. A.V. Berner was the eldest of three children in the family; she entered the Leningrad Civil Engineering Institute, from which she graduated in 1941.
Brother Sergei went to the front and soon died, the youngest, Alexey, and mother, Evgenia Dmitrievna (ur. Vasilyeva), remained with Anna Voldemarovna in blockaded Leningrad. She joined a sewing artel that worked for the needs of the army. Her work card helped the family survive the first terrible winter. In 1942, the Berners were evacuated to Yaroslavl, A.V. went to work at the hospital. After the end of the war, she returned to Leningrad and participated in the restoration of the city. Later she was engaged in industrial design, holding positions from engineer to chief project engineer at the Lengiproshakht, Refractories and 1st Design Institutes. Among the projects in which she took part are a titanium white plant in Sumy, a plant in Isfahan (Iran), and the administrative building of the Russian Diesel plant in Leningrad. In 1967, she retired and began to spend a significant part of her time in the village of Ovinets, Pskov region. There she developed an interest in genealogy, and not in her own pedigree, but in the pedigrees of local peasants. Over time, she collected significant material. In the early 1980s. Anna Voldemarovna became interested in the family circle of A.N. Benois and soon met the historian of the Benois family, Fyodor Frantsevich Benois, and other representatives of the family clan. In those same years, seeking the rehabilitation of her father, A.V. Berner came to the Memorial Research Center, to V.V. Iofa. She took an active part in the work of the center, in particular, she processed the archive of L. I. Polovinkina, about whom she published an article in the Memorial Bulletin in 1995. She also dealt with the fate of the repressed members of the Benoit family and related families. The collected material was used in the preparation of reports made by her at the International Genealogical Conference in St. Petersburg in 1992 and at seminars of the Russian Geographical Society, as well as a conference dedicated to the 200th anniversary of the Benoit family in Russia. A.V. Berner participated in preparations for the opening of the Benois Family Museum in Peterhof. Since 1991, A.V. Berner has been a member of the Russian Geographical Society. She has repeatedly spoken at seminars and published two articles in Izvestia of the Russian Geographical Society (issues 1 and 5). Her article was also published in the collection “200 Years of the Benois Family in Russia” (1994). She died in St. Petersburg on May 29, 2002.