Solzhenitsyna Natalya Dmitrievna is the editor and compiler of the complete works (30 volumes) written by her famous husband, which have been published since 2007. She is a Russian public figure, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Volnoe Delo Foundation and the Board of Trustees of the revival of the Solovetsky Monastery. She does not sit idle for a minute, does not rest on her husband’s laurels of success, and Natalia Dmitrievna Solzhenitsyna continues his work. The Solzhenitsyn Foundation, not without its main participation, was created in 1974 in Zurich, in 1992 it was transferred to Moscow. About her, we can say that this is a very glorious, selfless and hardworking woman who has become the assistant and right hand of the dissident writer Alexander Isaevich.
Solzhenitsyna Natalya Dmitrievna: biography
Her maiden name is Svetlova, she was born on July 22, 1939 in Moscow. Her father was Dmitry Ivanovich the Great (1904-1941). He was a native of the Stavropol peasants and was born in the village of Malaya Dzhalga. Then he studied at the Moscow Institute of Red Professors in the literary department of graduate school. In 1941, he went missing near Smolensk. The mother of Solzhenitsyna was Ekaterina Ferdinandovna Svetlova (1919-2008), she was born in Moscow and graduated from the Moscow Aviation Institute.
Grandfather Natalia Dmitrievna Svetlov Ferdinand Yuryevich (1884-1943) was a member of the Socialist Revolutionary Party, then worked in the newspaper Izvestia. He was arrested a year and a half before her birth, and then died in the Gulag.
Step-father D.K. Jacques (1903-1973) from 1949 was a statistician and economist by training, he became the author of a number of articles on statistical accounting. His younger brother is the Russian and Soviet poet Veniamin Jacques.
Education and career
Solzhenitsyna Natalya Dmitrievna graduated from Moscow State University, Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics. At the end of graduate school, she remained working in the laboratory of mathematical statistics.
Her first husband was Andrei Nikolaevich Tyurin, the famous Soviet and Russian mathematician, from whom Natalya Dmitrievna's son Dmitry was born (1962-1994), and her granddaughter is now growing from him.
Meeting with Solzhenitsyn
In August 1968, Natalya Dmitrievna met Solzhenitsyn. And since then, she became his secretary, editor and assistant in all his affairs and, most importantly, the mother of his wonderful three sons Yermolai (1970), Ignat (1972), Stepan (1973). They formalized marriage in 1973.
Solzhenitsyna Natalya Dmitrievna left with her four children from the USSR to the West after her husband. In 1976, their family was deprived of citizenship of the USSR, which was restored much later - in 1990. And only after 4 years, and more precisely in 1994, she returned to Russia with Alexander Solzhenitsyn and her children.
In 2000, on September 20, in the house in Trinity-Lykovo, the Solzhenitsyn met with President Putin and his wife Lyudmila.
In 2009, Putin V.V., already as prime minister, expressed a desire to talk with the Solzhenitsyn family. The main topic of their discussion was the study of Solzhenitsyn’s heritage in Russian schools.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Looking into the biography of Natalya Dmitrievna, one can not stop at her husband Alexander Isaevich Solzhenitsyn, who was born in Kislovodsk in 1918, December 11. By this time, his father had already died, and in 1924 the family left for Rostov-on-Don. There in 1941 he received a university education, having studied at the physics and mathematics department. But the war soon began, Solzhenitsyn was mobilized, and after an officer school he was sent to war. Before the Great Victory, Solzhenitsyn was arrested for anti-Stalinist statements in his letters, which he wrote to his friend N. Vitkevich. Alexander Solzhenitsyn was in Lyubyansk and Butyrka prisons; he was sentenced to 8 years in prison camps. Solzhenitsyn’s biography is simply impossible to retell in a nutshell, it was a very interen personality - our modern Dostoevsky, to whom many have an ambiguous attitude, since he cut the truth-uterus directly into the eyes.
Creative way
Impressions of the camp life in New Jerusalem, and then the work of prisoners in Moscow, formed the basis of his literary work “Republic of Labor” (1954). In the summer of 1947 he was transferred to the Martha "Sharashka", where he later describes his life in the novel "In the First Circle". In 1950, Solzhenitsyn was in the Ekibastuz camp and later recreates these events in the novel “One Day of Ivan Denisovich”. In 1952, he discovered a cancerous tumor, and he undergoes an operation to remove it. Since 1953, Solzhenitsyn has been on an eternal settlement in Kazakhstan, in the Dzhambul region, in the Kok-Terek aul.
In 1956 he was rehabilitated, he returns to Russia and works as a rural teacher in Ryazan. He describes this life in his work Matrenin Dvor. After the Khrushchev thaw against Solzhenitsyn, the struggle is growing again. There is almost no opportunity to work and print, at this time he will only write the work “Zakhar-Kalita”. The triumph of the discussion of his story “The Cancer Corps” (1968) does not bring the desired result, they are not allowed to publish it.
In 1968, he completed his brilliant work on the “Gulag Archipelago, ” and after the first volume came out, in 1974, Alexander Isaevich was arrested, deprived of his citizenship, and sent to Germany. From there he moves to Switzerland, to Zurich. In 1975, in Stockholm, Alexander Isaevich receives the Nobel Prize and leaves in 1976 in the United States, in Vermont. His main work is the writing of the epic "Red Wheel".
After the collapse of the USSR in 1994, he returned to his homeland. Having traveled the whole country, from Moscow to the Far East, he is actively connected to public life in Russia.
Alexander Isaevich Solzhenitsyn died on August 3, 2008 in Trinity-Lukov. His body was buried in the necropolis of the Donskoy Monastery in Moscow.
In 1992, a wonderful two-part film was made about Solzhenitsyn and his family, entitled “Alexander Solzhenitsyn” by Stanislav Govorukhin, who visited him in Vermont.
Ignat
It is impossible not to mention the children of this beautiful couple. Solzhenitsyna Natalya Dmitrievna September 23, 1972 in Moscow gave birth to a son, Ignat Solzhenitsyn. Today, he is already a well-known American and Russian pianist, chief conductor of the Philadelphia Chamber Orchestra (since 1998).
The first and strongest impression was made on him by the 5th symphony of Shostakovich, he heard it when he was not even 10 years old. After that, he was seized by a strong desire to engage in serious classical music. He began to study under the guidance of Rudolf Serkin. He later studied piano in London with Maria Kurcho and Gary Graffman.
Today he lives in New York and participates in the most prestigious music festivals, including the December Evenings and Mstislav Rostropovich. Ignat won the Avery Fisher Award.
Another amazing film called “Solzhenitsyn. At the Last Reach, ”where you can see how the music of Mozart and Brahms sounds in the Meimandi concert hall, the orchestra plays under the direction of Ignat Solzhenitsyn.
Yermolai
The eldest son of Natalya Dmitrievna Ermolai was born in 1970. He graduated from Harvard, studied at the Prinsky graduate school and today works in the consulting company McKinsey, since 1998 - in the mining and metallurgical industry of the EMEA region (Europe, CIS, Africa and the Middle East). Yermolai is also the head of the global expert group on energy and raw materials, and is part of the expert group on logistics, infrastructure and transport. Solzhenitsyn specializes in projects for the oil and gas, transport, engineering and mining and metallurgical industries and takes an active part in programs to develop the infrastructure of cities and entire regions.
Stepan
Today, for 12 years, Stepan Solzhenitsyn has been living in Russia. And above all, like all Solzhenitsyns, he feels himself Russian.
Stepan, like his brother Yermolai, graduated from Harvard and graduate school and today is the head of the Moscow branch of the consulting company McKinsey. He is involved in the entire energy sector in Russia, including monitoring the work of Rosatom, because it is this company that is responsible for the construction of the Hanhikivi NPP in Finland.
