The original pre-censored texts have been restored, re-checked and corrected by the author. From the author. The fate of modern Russian books: if they surface, they are pinched. This happened recently with Bulgakov’s “Master” - the feathers then floated. So it is with this novel of mine: in order to give it at least a weak life, dare to show it and take it to the editor, I myself condensed and distorted it, or rather, took it apart and put it back together, and in this form it became known. And although now you can’t catch up and you correct it - but it’s genuine. However, while restoring, I improved something: after all, then I was forty, and now I’m fifty. written - 1955-1958 distorted - 1964 restored - 1968 Dedicated to my friends in the sharashka. CONTENTS: In the first circle (7). ADDITIONS .Solzhenitsyn. Ten theses (613). A. Solzhenitsyn. Regarding M.A. Lifshitz’s review of the novel “In the First Circle” (619). A. Solzhenitsyn. Answers to questions from M.G. Petrova. December 24, 2004 (625).APPENDICES.G.Petrov. The fate of the author and the fate of the novel (629). Notes (compiled by M.G. Petrov) (733). List of illustrations (793).