Tributes possess poured in from around the world for Nobel prize-winning Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn, wHO has died aged 89.
He had been frail for several years and died of affectionateness failure late yesterday, his son Stephan told wire services.
"He had been ill many years, but notwithstanding he was still able to work every day and he was of completely sound mind all this time, so his death, in fact, was sudden," Stephan Solzhenitsyn said.
The author was working on corrections to a 30-volume set of collected workings on the day of his death, his boy said, adding that the family would treasure the many condolences they were receiving.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn's lying in state volition take place at the Russian Academy of Sciences tomorrow forwards of his burial at the Donskoye cemetery in Moscow on Wednesday, an official from the writer's foundation said.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev hailed him as "one of the sterling thinkers, writers and humanists of the 20th century" and "an irreplaceable loss".
Solzhenitsyn won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1970 after portrayal in torturesome detail the Soviet working class camps, where he spent eight years from 1945.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy honoured Solzhenitsyn as "one of the superlative consciences of 20th century Russia", while German Chancellor Angela Merkel said he was a great and important writer.
Russian opposition leader Garry Kasparov called him an inspiration.
Born in 1918 in Kislovodsk in the Caucasus in the bloody aftermath of the Russian Revolution, Solzhenitsyn was initially a loyal communist.
But he was sentenced to ashcan School years in the camps in 1945 for criticising Russian drawing card Joseph Stalin in a letter to a friend.
He was released in February 1953, a few weeks before Stalin's death and eventually became a maths teacher. He earned renown in 1962 with 'One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich'.
Published with official approval during the thaw under Stalin's successor, Nikita Khrushchev, the book's description of the camps made a huge shock. But it was afterwards banned and for decades Russians could only read clandestine editions of his work.
He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1970 but refused to travel to receive it for fear of not beingness allowed to return home.
By then Solzhenitsyn was working on his massive labor camp portrayal, 'The Gulag Archipelago'. He was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1974 after the authorities discovered manuscripts of the book.
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