ABSTRACT
Solzhenitsyn left kaluga Gate in the early afternoon of 18 July 1946 and was taken straight to Butyrki, the prison where he had spent a month the preceding summer. Passing the church cells, with their memories of Gammerov and Ingal and anxious conversations about the future, Solzhenitsyn was led into the reception wing. In Cell 75 Solzhenitsyn learned something more about the special prison institutes for scientific research that they were all bound for. At Zagorsk, Solzhenitsyn was given the post of librarian. The most significant event of Solzhenitsyn’s brief stay at Zagorsk was his discovery of the four-volume Russian dictionary of Vladimir Dahl. In early July 1947 Solzhenitsyn was taken from Zagorsk to Butyrki under armed escort to await yet another move in the chess game that the authorities appeared to be playing with him.
