A guidebook, "A.I. Solzhenitsyn on the City Map," has appeared in Ryazan. A monument may also appear.
A handy guide to places related to life Alexandra Solzhenitsyna In Ryazan, it was presented at the writer's museum center. The map shows nearly 20 addresses.
Solzhenitsyn arrived in Ryazan in 1957 after exile for political reasons and rehabilitation. He lived in the city for 12 years. There he wrote the novella "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich," the short story "Matryona's House," the miniatures "Tiny Things," and began work on "Cancer Ward," "The Gulag Archipelago," and "The Fifth Wheel."
Among the dots on the map is the house on Uritsky Street, 17, where he lived with his first wife Natalia Reshetovskaya, the house on Yablochkova Street, where he was given an apartment, Gymnasium No. 2, where Solzhenitsyn taught physics and astronomy and ran a photography club, and other addresses.
Local historians and employees of the Ryazan Historical and Cultural Museum Reserve participated in the creation of the guidebook (RIAMZ). The work was financed by the Ministry of Culture. The new director of RIAMZ was at the presentation. Inessa Feldman appreciated work:
“The team of authors has, in my opinion, accomplished the main task – to arouse interest in the places and personalities to whom these maps are dedicated.”
Solzhenitsyn was a writer, poet, political figure, and Nobel Prize laureate. However, modern society views him with mixed feelings. Regional Aspect correspondent asked One of the initiators of the guidebook's creation commented on this point. Arsen Baburin.
This map is the latest in a series of guides to places associated with the lives of Yesenin, Saltykov-Shchedrin, Tsiolkovsky, and Paustovsky. Yes, attitudes toward him are ambivalent, but we're talking about him now as a writer and a vibrant personality who left his mark on Ryazan and throughout Russia. The guidebook includes information about Solzhenitsyn and the buildings associated with his life and work. That is, we also highlight historical structures., — the local historian explained.
Ryazan Solzhenitsyn scholar Vladimir Krylov proposed erecting a monument to the writer. Director of the Solzhenitsyn Museum Center (RIAMZ) Yuri Sarychev supported the proposal.
Photo: Dmitry Sokolov/Ryazanskie Vedomosti
