Files under General | Aug
6th
Children were very close at the burial of the Nobel Prize-winning author whose books exposed the horrors of Soviet slave labor camps.
Time reports:
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was buried today in a Russian Orthodox ceremony that included goose-stepping honor guards and a religious choir singing solemn dirges.
The service, attended by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and a bevy of white-robed Orthodox priest, had all the trappings of a state funeral, including the honor guards, a military band and a gun salute.
Putin, now Russia’s prime minister, instructed the nation’s education minister Tuesday to make sure that Solzhenitsyn’s works make a prominent part of schools and university curricula.
