This author created Oleg Kostoglotov and wrote a novel in which a decree stated that any temperature lower than -41°C meant that the title character could (*) relax.
In one novel by this author, Vera Gangart cares for the protagonist, who describes his "Perpetual Exile" in Uzbekistan. This author created Oleg Kostoglotov and wrote a novel in which a decree stated that any temperature lower than -41°C meant that the title character could (*) relax. That character worked for Caesar, laughed at the jokes of Latvian Johann Kilgas, and served ten years after being convicted of being a spy. For 10 points, name this Soviet author whose One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and Gulag Archipelago described gulag life.
In one novel by this author, Vera Gangart cares for the protagonist, who describes his "Perpetual Exile" in Uzbekistan.
Aleksandr Isayevich {Solzhenitsyn}