1921-41: Youth

 

1.1┆  Semyon Efimovich Solzhenitsyn. 
Author’s paternal grandfather

1.2┆  Isaaki Semyonovich Solzhenitsyn.
Author’s father, 1910s

1.3┆  Isaaki Semyonovich Solzhenitsyn Solzhenitsyn. 
Author’s father, 1910s

1.4┆  Taisia Zakharovna Shcherbak.
author’s mother, 1910s

1.5┆  30 May 1921. 
credit: K. Braud

1.6┆  25 April 1925.

1.7┆  At grandfather’s estate. 
Standing on left: maternal grandfather Zakhar Fyodorovich Shcherbak. Seated: Aunt Ira and maternal grandmother Yevdokiya Georgievna. At Aunt Ira’s feet: mother Taisia Shcherbak. 

1.8┆  In 7th grade.
1933

1.9┆  The first graduating class of High School No. 15.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is fourth from the right in the middle row. Rostov-on-Don, 1936

1.10┆  Rostov-on-Don, late 1930s.

1.11┆  Graduation from Rostov University.
Left to right: Natalia Reshetovskaya, Nikolai Vitkevich, Kirill Simonyan, Lidia Ezherets, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
31 May 1941