Solzhenitsyn Natalia Dmitrievna: biography, private life

Solzhenitsyna Natalia Dmitrievna is the editor and compiler of the complete collection of works (30 volumes), written by her famous husband, who 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. Not a minute sits idle, does not rest on the laurels of her husband's success, and so does Solzhenitsyn's Natalya Dmitrievna. The Solzhenitsyn Foundation, not without its main participation, was established in 1974 in Zurich, in 1992 it was transferred to Moscow. About it you can say that this is a very glorious, selfless and hardworking woman who has become an assistant and right hand of the dissident writer Alexander Isaevich.

Solzhenitsyn Natalia Dmitrievna: biography

Her maiden name is Svetlova, she was born on July 22, 1939 in Moscow. Her father was Dmitri Ivanovich the Great-Great (1904-1941). He was a native of the Stavropol peasants and was born in the village of Malaya Jalga. Then he studied at the Moscow Institute of Red Professors at the Literary Department of Postgraduate Studies. In 1941, he disappeared without a trace near Smolensk. Solzhenitsyn's mother was Ekaterina Ferdinandovna Svetlova (1919-2008), she was born in Moscow and graduated from the Moscow Aviation Institute.

Natalia Dmitriyevna's grandfather Svetlov Ferdinand Yurievich (1884-1943) was a member of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party, then worked in the newspaper Izvestia. For a year and a half before her birth was arrested, and then died in the Gulag.

His stepfather, Jacques Jacques (1903-1973), since 1949, was a statistician and economist by education, 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 Natalia Dmitrievna graduated from Moscow State University, Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics. After graduating from the 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 had a son Dmitri (1962-1994), now a granddaughter is growing up.

Meeting with Solzhenitsyn

In August 1968, Natalia Dmitrievna met Solzhenitsyn. And since that time she became his secretary, editor and assistant in all his affairs and most importantly - the mother of his remarkable three sons Ermolai (1970), Ignat (1972), Stepan (1973). They formalized the marriage in 1973.

Solzhenitsyn Natalia Dmitrievna left with four children from the USSR to the West after her husband. In 1976, their family was deprived of the citizenship of the USSR, which was restored many years later - in 1990. And only after 4 years, to be exact in 1994, she, together with Alexander Solzhenitsyn and the children returned to Russia.

In 2000, on September 20, at the house in Troitsa-Lykovo, the Solzhenitsyns met with President Putin and his wife Lyudmila.

In 2009, VV Putin, already in the post of prime minister, expressed a desire to communicate with the Solzhenitsyn family. The main topic of their discussion was the study of Solzhenitsyn's legacy in Russian schools.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Looking into the biography of Natalia Dmitrievna, one can not help but mention her husband Alexander Isaevich Solzhenitsyn, who was born in Kislovodsk in 1918, on 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, after studying in the physical and mathematical department. But soon the war began, Solzhenitsyn was mobilized, and after the officer's 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 Lubyanka and Butyrskaya prisons, he was sentenced to 8 years in the camps. Solzhenitsyn's biography is simply impossible to retell in a nutshell, it was a very intertwining personality - our modern Dostoevsky, to whom many have an ambiguous attitude, since he cut the truth-womb directly in the eye.

Creative way

Impressions of the camp life in New Jerusalem, and later the work of the 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 later he described his life in the novel "In the First Circle". In 1950 Solzhenitsyn is in the Ekibastuz camp and later recreates these events in the story "One day of Ivan Denisovich." In 1952 he was diagnosed with a cancer tumor, and he underwent surgery to remove it. Since 1953, Solzhenitsyn is on an eternal settlement in Kazakhstan, in the Dzhambul region, in the village of Kok-Terek.

In 1956 he was rehabilitated, he returned to Russia and worked as a village teacher in Ryazan. He describes this life in the work "Matrenin yard". After Khrushchev's thaw against Solzhenitsyn, the struggle is again growing. Opportunities to work and print almost no, at this time he will write only the work "Zakhar-Kalita." The triumph of the discussion of his novel "Cancer Corps" (1968) does not bring the desired result, it is never allowed to be printed.

In 1968, he completed his brilliant work on the Gulag Archipelago, and after the first volume was published, in 1974, Alexander Isayevich was arrested, deprived of citizenship and expelled to the Federal Republic of Germany. From there he moves to Switzerland, in Zurich. In 1975, in Stockholm, Alexander Isaevich receives the Nobel Prize and leaves in 1976 in the US, in Vermont. His main work is the writing of the epic "The 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 the Trinity-Lukov. His body was buried in the necropolis of the Donskoy Monastery in Moscow.

In 1992, Solzhenitsyn and his family were shot a remarkable film in two parts entitled "Alexander Solzhenitsyn," Stanislav Govorukhin, who visited him in Vermont.

Ignat

It is impossible not to mention the children of this beautiful couple. Solzhenitsyn Natalia Dmitrievna September 23, 1972 in Moscow gave birth to the son of Ignat Solzhenitsyn. Today he is already a famous American and Russian pianist, chief conductor of the Philadelphia Chamber Orchestra (since 1998).

The very first and strong impression was made on him by Shostakovich's 5 symphony, he heard it when he was not even 10 years old. After that, he was seized with a strong desire to engage in serious classical music. He began to study under the direction of Rudolf Serkin. Later he studied piano in London with Maria Curcio and Gary Graffman.

Today he lives in New York and participates in the most prestigious music festivals, including "December Evenings" and "Mstislav Rostropovich". Ignat won the "Avery Fisher" award.

On the life of the Solzhenitsyn family, another amazing film was filmed under the title "Solzhenitsyn. On the last stretch, where you can see the music of Mozart and Brahms in the Meimandi concert hall, the orchestra plays under the leadership of Ignat Solzhenitsyn.

Ermolai

The eldest son of Natalia Dmitrievna Yermolay was born in 1970. He graduated from Harvard, studied at Priston graduate school and now works in consulting company McKinsey, since 1998 - in the mining and metallurgical industry of the EMEA region (Europe, CIS, Africa and the Middle East). Ermolai is also the head of the global expert group on energy and raw materials, is a member of the expert group on logistics, infrastructure and transport. Solzhenitsyn specializes in projects for oil and gas, transport, engineering and mining and metallurgy industries and takes an active part in programs for the development of the infrastructure of cities and entire regions.

Stepan

Today, for the past 12 years, Stepan Solzhenitsyn has lived in Russia. And above all, like all Solzhenitsyns, he feels Russian.

Stepan too, 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 this company is responsible for the construction of the Hanhikivi nuclear power plant in Finland.

Conclusion

Solzhenitsyna Natalia Dmitrievna, after her husband's death through his literary works and the foundation, opens the truth to the people, and also helps all those who have experienced terrible times of ill-health and who need help and support.