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2015.015.001

Titel

LP record

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn gave this LP record of him reading his epic poem Prussian Nights to Swedish journalist Stig Fredriksson, who hade become his friend. Because of his criticism of the Soviet social system, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's books were banned in the Soviet Union. Fredriksson smuggled out several of Solzhenitsyn’s manuscripts, including his Nobel Prize lecture. After Solzhenitsyn was exiled from the Soviet Union in 1974, Solzhenitsyn and Fredriksson met in Zurich. That was when the author gave Fredriksson this LP. It had been recorded secretly in the Soviet Union in 1969 and was released in the West.

The LP was donated to the Nobel Prize Museum by Stig Fredriksson in 2015.

Pristagare

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

Person

Stig Fredrikson