Editing Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (section)

=== Marriages and children ===

On 7 April 1940, while at the university, Solzhenitsyn married Natalia Alekseevna Reshetovskaya.<ref>{{Citation | last = Terras | first = Victor | year = 1985 | title = Handbook of Russian Literature | page = 436 | publisher = Yale University Press | isbn = 978-0-300-04868-1}}</ref> They had just over a year of married life before he went into the army, then to the Gulag. They divorced in 1952, a year before his release because the wives of Gulag prisoners faced the loss of work or residence permits. After the end of his internal exile, they remarried in 1957,<ref>[[#Scammell|Scammell]], p. 366</ref> divorcing a second time in 1972. Reshetovskaya wrote negatively of Solzhenitsyn in her memoirs, accusing him of having affairs, and said of the relationship that "[Solzhenitsyn]'s despotism ... would crush my independence and would not permit my personality to develop."<ref>{{cite news|last=Rourke|first=Mary|date=6 June 2003|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-jun-06-me-reshetovskaya6-story.html|title=Natalya Reshetovskaya, 84; Twice Married to Alexander Solzhenitsyn|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=13 August 2021}}</ref> In her 1974 memoir, ''Sanya: My Life with Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn'', she wrote that she was "perplexed" that the West had accepted ''The Gulag Archipelago'' as "the solemn, ultimate truth", saying its significance had been "overestimated and wrongly appraised". Pointing out that the book's subtitle is "An Experiment in Literary Investigation", she said that her husband did not regard the work as "historical research, or scientific research". She contended that it was, rather, a collection of "camp folklore", containing "raw material" which her husband was planning to use in his future productions.

In 1973, Solzhenitsyn married his second wife, Natalia Dmitrievna Svetlova, a [[mathematician]] who had a son, Dmitri Turin, from a brief prior marriage.<ref>{{Citation | last = Cook | first = Bernard A | title = Europe Since 1945: An Encyclopedia | page = 1161 | publisher = Taylor & Francis | year = 2001 | isbn = 978-0-8153-4058-4}}</ref> He and Svetlova (born 1939) had three sons: Yermolai (1970), [[Ignat Solzhenitsyn|Ignat]] (1972), and Stepan (1973).<ref>Aikman, David. ''Great Souls: Six Who Changed a Century'', pp. 172–173. Lexington Books, 2003, {{ISBN|978-0-7391-0438-5}}.</ref> Dmitri Turin died on 18 March 1994, aged 32, at his home in New York City.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://apnews.com/article/3410c0d3634abaa21e042cb3dc031fd9|title=Solzhenitsyn's Stepson Dmitri Turin Dies at Age 32|website=AP News|agency=Associated Press|date=23 March 1994|access-date=28 November 2021|archive-date=26 March 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230326234939/https://apnews.com/article/3410c0d3634abaa21e042cb3dc031fd9|url-status=dead}}</ref>