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DIED. NATALYA RESHETOVSKAYA, 84, Russian pianist and scientist better known for her tumultuous two marriages to dissident author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn; in Moscow. In a 1974 memoir of their life together, she questioned some of the descriptions of Stalin's prison camps in Solzhenitsyn's book The Gulag Archipelago, calling them "camp folklore." She split from her husband in 1970 but as recently as last year said, "I love him right up to this moment...
...Christian Science Monitor published an interview with a former fellow prisoner who said that Solzhenitsyn was the informer responsible for his being sent to a concentration camp. The leading Parisian daily Le Figaro printed an interview with Natalya Reshetovskaya, Solzhenitsyn's divorced wife. She dismissed Solzhenitsyn's new book, The Gulag Archipelago, a study of Soviet terror, as mere "concentration-camp folklore." In addition, vituperative articles by prominent Soviet writers about Gulag have appeared in the New York Times and France's Le Monde. These and other "exclusives" appearing in the Western press were all arranged...
Divorced. Alexander Solzhenitsyn, 54, Nobel-prizewinning Russian novelist; and Natalya Alexeyevna Reshetovskaya, fiftyish; after 24 years of marriage (three of separation), no children; in Ryazan, U.S.S.R. Natalya's settlement is said to be one-third of the writer's $80,000 Nobel money. Solzhenitsyn, after a brief waiting period, will be free to marry Natalya Svetlova, 34, the mother of his two sons...
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