MOSCOW : Solzhenitsyn Windup

Alexander I. Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel-prize winning writer, completing a nearly two-month tour across his native Russia, is scheduled to arrive in Moscow on Thursday.

Russia’s greatest living writer is likely to be coming home cranky. When he returned to Vladivostok on May 27 after two decades in exile, he complained of the intrusive media that greeted him. Later, as he made his way across Russia, he complained that his trip was not being given the serious press coverage it deserved.

However, Solzhenitsyn has agreed to address the new Russian Duma, or lower house of Parliament, next fall.