Readings for Troubled Times: Matryona's Home and Harvard Address

Over at Jeremy Beer’s Philanthropy Daily, in their continuing series “Readings for Troubled Times”, Robert George considers the prophetic aspects of the Harvard Address, while Ryan Hanning recommends Matryona’s Home “and the enduring beauty of virtue”.

Memorial to Solzhenitsyn Erected near “Matryona’s Home”

In 1956, having been freed from exile in Kazakhstan, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn took a teaching position at a school  in the village of Mezinovka. He rented a room from Matryona Vasilyevna, who would go on to be the inspiration for his novella Matryona's Home, which he wrote that year. 

A memorial to the writer and a reconstruction of Matryona's home were unveiled last week in Mezinovka.