Седьмой том открывает историческую эпопею в четырех Узлах "Красное Колесо". Узел 1, "Август Четырнадцатого", состоит из двух книг. Книга первая посвящена Самсоновской катастрофе - окружению и разгрому Второй русской армии в начале Первой мировой войны.
Works, including One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962) and The Gulag Archipelago (1973-1975), of Soviet writer and dissident Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn, awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1970, exposed the brutality of the labor camp system.
This known Russian novelist, dramatist, and historian best helped to make the world aware of the forced Gulag.
Exiled in 1974, he returned to Russia in 1994. Solzhenitsyn fathered of Ignat Solzhenitsyn, a conductor and pianist.