Matryona's Place

Matryona's Place, sometimes translated as Matryona's Home (or House), is a novella written in 1959 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. First published by Aleksandr Tvardovsky in the Russian literary journal Novy Mir in 1963, it is Solzhenitsyn's most read short story.The narrator, a former prisoner of the gulag and a teacher of mathematics, has a longing to return to live in the Russian provinces and takes...