Russian Premier Vladimir Putin pays condolence to Natalya Solzhenitsyna, the widow of the famous Russian author, Soviet dissident and Nobel literature prize winner Alexander Solzhenitsyn during the farewell ceremony in the Russian Academy of Science building in Moscow, Russia 05 August 2008. Alexander Solzhenitsyn died of heart failure late Sunday at the age of 89 and will be burried on the cemetery of Donskoy Monastery in Moscow on Wednesday 06 August. EPA/YURI KOCHETKOV
Natalya, the widow of the famous Russian author, Soviet dissident and Nobel literature prize winner Alexander Solzhenitsyn, stands at the coffin containing her husband's body during the farewell ceremony in the Russian Academy of Science building in Moscow, Russia 05 August 2008. Alexander Solzhenitsyn died of heart failure late Sunday at the age of 89 and will be burried on the cemetery of Donskoy Monastery in Moscow on Wednesday 06 August. EPA/YURI KOCHETKOV
The honor guards stand at the coffin with the body of the famous Russian author, Soviet dissident and Nobel literature prize winner Alexander Solzhenitsyn during the farewell ceremony in the Russian Academy of Science building in Moscow, Russia 05 August 2008. Alexander Solzhenitsyn died of heart failure late Sunday at the age of 89 and will be buried on the cemetery of Donskoy Monastery in Moscow on Wednesday 06 August. EPA/YURI KOCHETKOV
Russian Premier Vladimir Putin pays his condolences to the relatives of the famous Russian author, Soviet dissident and Nobel literature prize winner Alexander Solzhenitsyn during the farewell ceremony in the Russian Academy of Science building in Moscow, Russia 05 August 2008. Alexander Solzhenitsyn died of heart failure late Sunday at the age of 89 and will be burried on the cemetery of Donskoy Monastery in Moscow on Wednesday 06 August. EPA/YURI KOCHETKOV
Russian Premier Vladimir Putin lays flowers at the coffin with the body of the famous Russian author, Soviet dissident and Nobel literature prize winner Alexander Solzhenitsyn during the farewell ceremony in the Russian Academy of Science building in Moscow, Russia 05 August 2008. Alexander Solzhenitsyn died of heart failure late Sunday at the age of 89 and will be burried on the cemetery of Donskoy Monastery in Moscow on Wednesday 06 August. EPA/ALEXEY NIKOLSKY RIA NOVOSTI /*** NO SALES NO ARCHIVES NOT FOR USE AFTER 05 SEPTEMBER
A honor guard stands at the coffin with the body of the famous Russian author, Soviet dissident and Nobel literature prize winner Alexander Solzhenitsyn during the farewell ceremony in the Russian Academy of Science building in Moscow, Russia 05 August 2008. Alexander Solzhenitsyn died of heart failure late Sunday at the age of 89 and will be burried on the cemetery of Donskoy Monastery in Moscow on Wednesday 06 August. EPA/YURI KOCHETKOV
The honor guards stand at the coffin with the body of the famous Russian author, Soviet dissident and Nobel literature prize winner Alexander Solzhenitsyn during the farewell ceremony in the Russian Academy of Science building in Moscow, Russia 05 August 2008. Alexander Solzhenitsyn died of heart failure late Sunday at the age of 89 and will be burried on the cemetery of Donskoy Monastery in Moscow on Wednesday 06 August. EPA/YURI KOCHETKOV
A honor guard takes up his post alongside the coffin containing the body of the famous Russian author, Soviet dissident and Nobel literature prize winner Alexander Solzhenitsyn during the farewell ceremony in the Russian Academy of Science building in Moscow, Russia 05 August 2008. Alexander Solzhenitsyn died of heart failure late Sunday at the age of 89 and will be burried on the cemetery of Donskoy Monastery in Moscow on Wednesday 06 August. EPA/YURI KOCHETKOV
The relatives of Alexander Solzhenitsyn (L-R) son Stepan, widow Natalya and son Yermolai (others are unidentified) stand at the coffin with the body of the famous Russian author, Soviet dissident and Nobel literature prize winner Alexander Solzhenitsyn during the farewell ceremony in the Russian Academy of Science building in Moscow, Russia 05 August 2008. Alexander Solzhenitsyn died of heart failure late Sunday at the age of 89 and will be burried on the cemetery of Donskoy Monastery in Moscow on Wednesday 06 August. EPA/YURI KOCHETKOV
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