One Day in the Life

"gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either -- but right through every human heart."

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Blagoveshensky Cathedral, Kazan

Alexander Solzhenitsyn died yesterday at age 89.

The obituary in on BBC’c Web Page is worth a read.

From the Guardian

Solzhenitsyn's wife, Natalya, told Interfax that her husband, who suffered along with millions of Russians in the prison camp system, had died as he had hoped to die.

"He wanted to die in the summer, and he died in the summer," she said. "He wanted to die at home, and he died at home. In general, I should say that Alexander Isaevich lived a difficult but happy life.

His book One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is one of my all time most memorable reads.