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Taisiya Zakharovna Solzhenitsyna Таисия Захаровна Солженицына | |
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| Born | Taisiya Zakharovna Shcherbak 21 October 1894 Pyatigorsk, Terek Oblast, Russian Empire |
| Died | 17 January 1944 (aged 49) Georgievsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Cause of death | Tuberculosis |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Known for | being the mother of Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn |
| Field of study | Agronomy |
Taisiya Zakharovna Solzhenitsyna (née Shcherbak; 21 October 1894 – 17 January 1944) was a Russian farmer and landholder, and the mother of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. She came from a well-off background, with her father Zakhar Fyodorovich Shcherbak owning a very rich and productive estate in Kuban.[1]
Taisiya spent much of her formative years at her father's estate. In 1908, Zakhar sent Taisiya to a private gymnasium in Rostov where she performed exceedingly well, learning how to speak three languages fluently and graduating with a gold medal.[2] She then enrolled at the Higher Women's Agricultural Courses in Moscow in 1912 where she studied agronomy; however, her studies were cut short due to the February Revolution.[2] While in Moscow she met Isaakiy Solzhenitsyn,[3] an officer in the Russian Imperial Army, whom she married in Byelorussia in 1917, two months before the Bolshevik Revolution.[4] Isaakiy died just a year later in a hunting accident however, and Taisiya was left to raise their soon-to-be-born son Aleksandr on her own.[5]
In 1921 she moved back to Rostov in search of employment opportunities, and her son was left in the care of her sister Irina and her mother Yevdokiya.[6]
On 17 January 1944 she died from tuberculosis.[7]
References
- ↑ Thomas, D. M. (1998).: Alexander Solzhenitsyn: A Century in His Life. New York. St. Martin's Press. p. 4, 5, 13, 22, 31, 32, 33, 34, 36, 57, 60, 61, 71, 305, 460, 474, 475.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Thomas, p. 10.
- ↑ Thomas, p. 12.
- ↑ Thomas, p. 18.
- ↑ Thomas, p. 25.
- ↑ Thomas, p. 34.
- ↑ Sputnik International (2007-01-31).: "Suspect in desecration of Solzhenitsyn mother's grave detained".