Ivan Ilyin
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Ivan Alexandrovich Ilyin was a Russian jurist, religious and political philosopher, publicist, orator, and a far-right thinker.
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Ilyin in 1901
Kremlin Palace and churches, early 1920s
Mokhovaya Street with the old buildings of the Moscow State University
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was a Soviet and Russian author and dissident who helped to raise global awareness of political repression in the Soviet Union, especially the Gulag prison system. He
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…Ilyin's views on Russia's social structure and world history influenced some post-Soviet intellectuals and politicians, including Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Russian president Vladimir Putin. Ivan Ilyin was born in an aristocratic family claiming Rurikid descent. Ilyin's grandfather was a military man…
Solzhenitsyn in 1974
Solzhenitsyn (right) and his long-time friend Mstislav Rostropovich (left) at the celebration of Solzhenitsyn's 80th birthday
Solzhenitsyn with Heinrich Böll in Langenbroich, West Germany, 1974
Solzhenitsyn looks out from a train, in Vladivostok, summer 1994, before departing on a journey across Russia. Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia after nearly 20 years in exile.