Matryona's Home. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Alexander Isaevich Solzhenitsyn 1918—2008 was a witness and direct participant in many large-scale historical events and went through his path together with his generation, fully experiencing all the hardships that fell to the lot of his contemporaries. The story «Matryona's Home» is about the hard fate of a Russian woman who endured two wars, buried her children, experienced the burdens of unbearable labor, and maintained a pure, selfless, living soul. The book also includes the story «One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich» — the first published work of A.I. Solzhenitsyn. It became a significant phenomenon not only in Soviet but also in world literature.