The greatest Russian writers, contemporaries of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, greeted his arrival in literature very warmly, some even enthusiastically. But over time, the attitude towards him changed dramatically. A. Tvardovsky, who spared no effort and effort to publish an unknown author in the “New World”, then told him to his face: “You have nothing sacred...” M. Sholokhov, having read the first story of a literary newcomer, asked Tvardovsky from his name on occasion to kiss the author, and later wrote about him: “Some kind of painful shamelessness...” The same can be said about the attitude of L. Leonov, K. Simonov towards him... Having read the book of one of the most authoritative publicists of our time, Vladimir Bushin, If you personally knew the writer, you will understand what Solzhenitsyn sacrificed for the sake of fame.