Solzhenitsyn, Ill, Skips Citizen’s Oath but Wife Takes It
The wife of Nobel Prize-winning author Alexander Solzhenitsyn became a U.S. citizen today, but she said her husband was ill and will have to take the oath another day.
Natalia Solzhenitsyn left the U.S. District Court immediately after the five-minute ceremony.
“It is a really important moment in my life and I want to go home and share it with my family and friends,” she said.
The Solzhenitsyns moved in 1976 to Cavendish, a small community in southern Vermont, soon after arriving in the United States. The couple’s three sons, Yermolay, Ignat and Stephan, automatically become citizens once their parents are sworn in.
Solzhenitsyn, 66, won the Nobel Prize in 1970. Four years later he was arrested by Soviet officials for criticizing the government and was put on a plane to Zurich, Switzerland.
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