Solzhenitsyn is buried

Author Alexander Solzhenitsyn was buried today in a Russian Orthodox ceremony that included goose-stepping honour guards and a religious choir singing dirges.

Solzhenitsyn who died on Sunday at his home outside Moscow aged 89, was buried according to his will amid the pink brick cupolas of Moscow’s Donskoi Monastery, where famous Russian cultural figures have been laid to rest since the 18th century.