Reverence for Solzhenitsyn, but No National Mourning

MOSCOW — In a museum here is a box of detergent that stands as a symbol of the reverence that Russians once held for Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the literary giant who died on Sunday night. Within the box is concealed an illicit copy of Mr. Solzhenitsyn’s masterpiece about the Soviet labor camps, “The Gulag Archipelago,” which was obsessively circulated in Soviet times despite the penalties for those who read it.

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