RECENT COLUMNS
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David Warren
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Stephen P. White
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H.W. Crocker III
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Randall Smith
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Amy Fahey
NEWS
COMMENTARY
RECENT COLUMNS
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David Warren
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Stephen P. White
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H.W. Crocker III
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Randall Smith
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Amy Fahey
NEWS
COMMENTARY
Growing up Solzhenitsyn
Jonathon Van Maren, First Things
Friday, February 26, 2021
Ignat Solzhenitsyn, world-renowned Russian-American conductor and pianist, was born in Moscow under communism, exiled to America with his parents, Aleksandr and Natalia Solzhenitsyn and two brothers, and able to return to Russia only after the long Soviet nightmare finally came to an end. Ignat, who currently resides in New York City, has a singular understanding of what home means.