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"The foundation stones of a great building are destined to groan and be pressed upon; it is not for them to crown the edifice."

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About Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was a Russian novelist, historian, and dissident whose works exposed the Soviet forced-labor camp system. His major books include One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and The Gulag Archipelago. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970.

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