He was a hero of mine in the world of Russian literature and the samizdat movement. He will be missed. So sorry to hear this. Rest in peace.

When I saw his name I felt the cold. The Arctic freeze, with no end in sight. the Gulag Archipelago, Then I also remembered the fall of the Berlin Wall. He lived to see the end of the Soviet oppression but the thaw continues.
His work was a record and a warning so that the prison camps could be remembered by the Russian people, and the people of the world.
The cold wasn't just physical. It was a political and emotional freeze.
Have we listened?
Now he can rest having fought oppression the way he best could, not with the military or violence, not with promises, or with dreams,
He fought it with the truth.

He felt himself as living classic and tried to do as much as possible in this direction. And as much he have tried as far from this goal he was. Even "Archipelag Gulag" was already difficult reading, hence after it. Yes, he will stay in our memory as the hero who overturned our conscious with his early works and as a man, who wasn't able to overcome his own self-esteem in time.

A true hero.
RIP