With deep semantic unity, the prose of Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008) is distinguished by amazing poetic diversity. This was felt in the early 1960s by readers of the first published stories of an unexpectedly great, truly new writer: “One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich” was followed by the decidedly different “An Incident at Kochetovka Station” and “Matryonin’s Dvor”. Each time, new artistic solutions were revealed in the novel “In the First Circle” and the story “Cancer Ward”, “tiny things” and the “experience of artistic research” “The Gulag Archipelago”. Even each of the four Nodes of “narration in measured terms” is built according to its own, special, poetic laws. In the book by A. S. Nemzer, published on the centenary of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, an attempt was made to “slowly read” a number of his works, to interpret their genre, compositional, stylistic originality, the specifics of Solzhenitsyn’s understanding of history and human personality. Particular attention is paid to the dialogue with the great literary tradition, which the writer conducted throughout his entire career. Andrey Nemzer is a literary historian, full professor at the National Research University Higher School of Economics.