Isaakiy Semyonovich Solzhenitsyn Исаакий Семёнович Солженицын | |
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| Born | 19 June 1890 or 11 June 1891 Sablinskoe, Stavropol Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Died | 15 June 1918 (age 27) Georgiyevsk, Stavropol Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Cause of death | Blood poisoning |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Known for | being the late father of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn |
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Isaakiy Semyonovich Solzhenitsyn (11 June 1891 – 15 June 1918) was an officer in the Imperial Russian Army and the father of Russian novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
Isaakiy was born in the Stavropol Governorate in 1890 or 1891. He was the son of Semyon Solzhenitsyn, a wealthy farmer and landholder, and Pelageya Solzhenitsyna. Solzhenitsyn volunteered for an artillery brigade in the Imperial Russian Army in 1914 at the outbreak of the First World War. He fought against the Germans in East Prussia and Byelorussia, and was awarded the Cross of St. George as well as the Order of Saint Anna for bravery. Isaakiy married Taisiya Solzhenitsyna, née Shcherbak, in Byelorussia in 1917. In February or March 1918, shortly before the signing of the Brest-Litovsk Peace Treaty, Solzhenitsyn was dismissed from the Army. Solzhenitsyn died on 15 June 1918, six months before his son Aleksandr was born, in a hospital in Georgiyevsk following a hunting accident.[1]
References
- ↑ Thomas, Donald Michael (1998).: Alexander Solzhenitsyn: A Century in His Life. New York City. St. Martin's Press. p. 25.