Август Четырнадцатого. Красное Колесо. Узел I

Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenit͡syn - russkiĭ pisatelʹ, publit͡sist, obshchestvennyĭ dei͡atelʹ, laureat Nobelevskoĭ premii po literature ("Za nravstvennui͡u silu, s kotoroĭ on prodolzhil tradit͡sii velikoĭ russkoĭ literatury", 1970), laureat Gosudarstvennoĭ premii Rossiĭskoĭ Federat͡sii za vydai͡ushchiesi͡a dostizhenii͡a v oblasti gumanitarnoĭ dei͡atelʹnosti (2006), akademik Rossiĭskoĭ akademii nauk. Roman "Avgust Chetyrnadt͡satogo" byl opublikovan v 1971 godu v Parizhe, stav pervoĭ knigoĭ ("Uzlom", po opredelenii͡u avtora) v ėpopee "Krasnoe Koleso", masshtabnom istoriko-khudozhestvennom polotne, posvi͡ashchënnom sobytii͡am v Rossii 1914-1917 godov. Deĭstvie romana proiskhodit v nachale Pervoĭ mirovoĭ voĭny. Mnogochislennye si͡uzhetnye linii, obilie personazheĭ (mnogie iz kotorykh - izvestnye istoricheskie persony), i͡arkie, dramaticheskie sobytii͡a, istoricheskai͡a dostovernostʹ pozvoli͡ai͡ut nazvatʹ roman odnim iz samykh znachitelʹnykh istoricheskikh proizvedeniĭ KhKh veka.

Russian Russian writer, publicist, and public figure Alexander Solzhenitsyn, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature ("For the moral force with which he continued the traditions of great Russian literature", 1970), winner of the State Prize of the Russian Federation for Outstanding Achievements in the field of humanitarian work (2006), Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The novel "August of the Fourteenth" was published in Paris in 1971, becoming the first book ("Knot", according to the author's definition) in the epic "The Red Wheel", a large-scale historical and artistic canvas dedicated to the events in Russia in 1914-1917. The novel takes place at the beginning of the First World War. Numerous storylines, an abundance of characters (many of whom are famous historical figures), vivid, dramatic events, historical authenticity allow us to call the novel one of the most significant historical works of the twentieth century.