Editing Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (section)

=== Return to Russia ===

[[File:A solzhenitsin.JPG|thumb|Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn looks out from a train, in [[Vladivostok]], summer 1994, before departing on a journey across Russia. Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia after nearly 20 years in exile.]]

In 1990, his Soviet citizenship was restored, and, in 1994, he returned to Russia with his wife, Natalia, who had become a United States citizen. Their sons stayed behind in the United States (later, his eldest son Yermolai returned to Russia). From then until his death, he lived with his wife in a [[dacha]] in Troitse-Lykovo in west Moscow between the dachas once occupied by Soviet leaders [[Mikhail Suslov]] and [[Konstantin Chernenko]]. A staunch believer in traditional [[Culture of Russia|Russian culture]], Solzhenitsyn expressed his disillusionment with post-Soviet Russia in works such as ''{{ill|Rebuilding Russia|ru|Как нам обустроить Россию?}}'', and called for the establishment of a strong [[presidential republic]] balanced by vigorous institutions of local self-government. The latter would remain his major political theme.<ref>{{Citation | last = Solzhenitsyn | first = Aleksandr Isaevich | title = Rebuilding Russia | place = New York | publisher = Farrar, Straus & Giroux | year = 1991}}</ref> Solzhenitsyn also published eight two-part short stories, a series of contemplative "miniatures" or prose poems, and a literary memoir on his years in the West ''The Grain Between the Millstones'', translated and released as two works by the [[University of Notre Dame]] as part of the [[Kennan Institute]]'s Solzhenitsyn Initiative.<ref>{{cite web |title=Large Works & Novels > Between Two Millstones |url=https://www.solzhenitsyncenter.org/his-writings/large-works-and-novels/between-two-millstones |website=SolzhenitsynCenter.org/ |publisher=The Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Center |access-date=3 October 2020}}</ref> The first, ''Between Two Millstones, Book 1: Sketches of Exile (1974–1978)'', was translated by Peter Constantine and published in October 2018, the second, ''Book 2: Exile in America (1978–1994)'' translated by Clare Kitson and Melanie Moore and published in October 2020.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Solzhenitsyn |first1=Aleksandr |title=Solzhenitsyn's Journey from Oppression to Independence |work=The Wall Street Journal |issue=3 October 2020 }}</ref>

Once back in Russia, Solzhenitsyn hosted a television [[talk show]] program.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/04/14/world/now-on-moscow-tv-heeere-s-aleksandr.html|title=Now on Moscow TV, Heeere's Aleksandr!|date=14 April 1995|work=The New York Times}}</ref> Its eventual format was Solzhenitsyn delivering a 15-minute [[monologue]] twice a month; it was discontinued in 1995.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-09-26-mn-50166-story.html|title=Russian TV Pulls the Plug on Solzhenitsyn's Biting Talk Show|work=Los Angeles Times|date=26 September 1995 }}</ref> Solzhenitsyn became a supporter of [[Vladimir Putin]], who said he shared Solzhenitsyn's critical view towards the [[Russian Revolution]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t1H_BgAAQBAJ&q=solzhenitsyn,+nationalist,+putin&pg=PA254|title=Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Cold War Icon, Gulag Author, Russian Nationalist?: A Study of His Western Reception|last=Kriza|first=Elisa|year= 2014|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=978-3-8382-6689-3|pages=205–210|language=en}}</ref>

All of Solzhenitsyn's sons became U.S. citizens.<ref>Jin, Ha (2008) ''The Writer as Migrant'', University of Chicago Press, p. 10, {{ISBN|978-0-226-39988-1}}.</ref> One, [[Ignat Solzhenitsyn|Ignat]], is a [[pianist]] and conductor.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.princeton.edu/music/news/archive/index.xml?id=4041 |title= Ignat Solzhenitsyn to Appear With Princeton University Orchestra |publisher= The Trustees of Princeton University |date= 8 May 2013 |access-date= 8 May 2013 |archive-date= 17 September 2017 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170917004827/http://www.princeton.edu/music/news/archive/index.xml?id=4041 |url-status= dead }}</ref> Another Solzhenitsyn son, Yermolai, works for the Moscow office of [[McKinsey & Company]], a management consultancy firm, where he is a senior partner.<ref>{{cite web|title=Yermolai Solzhenitzin|url=https://www.mckinsey.com/our-people/yermolai-solzhenitsyn|website=mckinsey.com|access-date=11 April 2018}}</ref>