The largest Russian writers, contemporaries of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, greeted his arrival in literature very warmly, some even enthusiastically. But over time, the attitude towards him changed dramatically. A. Tvardovsky, who spared no effort and effort to publish an unknown author in the "New World", then told him to his eyes: "You have nothing sacred..." M. Sholokhov, after reading the first novel of a literary novice, asked Tvardovsky on his behalf on occasion to kiss the author, and later wrote about him: "Some kind of painful shamelessness..." The same can be said about the attitude of L. Leonov, K. Simonov to him… After reading the book by one of the most authoritative publicists of our time, Vladimir Bushin, who personally knew the writer, you will understand what Solzhenitsyn sacrificed for fame.