Isaakiy Semyonovich Solzhenitsyn Исаакий Семёнович Солженицын | |
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| Born | 11 June 1891 Sablinskoe, Stavropol Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Died | 15 June 1918 Georgiyevsk, Stavropol Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Cause of death | Blood poisoning |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Known for | being the late father of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn |
Isaakiy Semyonovich Solzhenitsyn was an officer of the Imperial Russian Army and veteran of the First World War. He was the son of Semyon Efimovich Solzhenitsyn, a shepherd, and Pelageya Pankratievna Solzhenitsyna. Solzhenitsyn volunteered in 1914 to fight the Germans, and was awarded the Cross of St. George for dragging away munition boxes that had caught on fire. He married Taisiya Solzhenitsyna, née Shcherbak, in Belarus in 1917. In February 1918, shortly before the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, Solzhenitsyn was dismissed from the Army. Solzhenitsyn died in the hospital following a hunting accident in June 1918, six months before his son Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was born.