The Cancer Ward, released in 1967. A book written about his cancer treatment in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Even the short story The Right Hand is based on the same

After Khrushchev was ousted in 1964, Solzhenitsyn was hounded by the KGB and subsequently expelled from the Soviet Union in 1974 only to return in 1994

After his return, he settled in a secluded Russian village where The Red Wheel, a multivolume saga of Russian history was written

Awarded the Nobel prize in literature in 1970 and the Templeton Prize in 1983

The last book, Two Hundred Years Together, released in 2001 addressed the complex emotions of Russian-Jewish relations. The book was criticized for alleged anti-Semitic passages which the author denied

Awarded Russia’s highest honour, the Order of St Andrew, which he refused to accept