1945 - 1950: Alexander Solzhenitsyn during the gulag yearsPhotograph: CSU Archives/Everett Collection/Rex Features1965: A portrait of SolzhenitsynPhotograph: Hulton Archive/Getty1974: Solzhenitsyn receives his Nobel prize for literature, awarded in 1970, after his exile from the Soviet UnionPhotograph: Sipa Press/Rex Features
1975: Solzhenitsyn plays tennis at Norwich University in Northfield, Vermont, USAPhotograph: AP1983: Margaret Thatcher and Solzhenitsyn at No 10 Downing StreetPhotograph: PA1983: Solzhenitsyn and his wife Natalia leaving Heathrow for New YorkPhotograph: PA1989: Solzhenitsyn sitting outside his homePhotograph: Steve Liss/Time Life Pictures/Getty1994: Solzhenitsyn with his wife Natalia and sons Stephan and YermolaiPhotograph: Sipa Press/Rex Features1994: Solzhenitsyn in central SiberiaPhotograph: Sipa Press/Rex Features1994: Solzhenitsyn speaks in the Duma, the Russian parliament's lower chamber, in MoscowPhotograph: Sergei Karpukhin/AP1994: Solzhenitsyn visits KhabarovskPhotograph: Sipa Press/Rex Features1998: Spectators applaud Solzhenitsyn at the Theatre Na Taganke, at a celebration for his 80th birthdayPhotograph: Alexander Nemenov/AFP2007: Vladimir Putin visits Solzhenitsyn at his home in Troitse-Lykovo, outside MoscowPhotograph: Mickail Klimentiev/AFP
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