The articles touches upon the problems concerning a renown American researcher R. Jacobson’s scientific interests which were important during his stay in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and recreates historical and linguistic context in which his works appeared.
The article analyzes the image of Norway in A. I. Solzhenitsyn’s memoir sketches The Oak and the Calf and Between Two Millstones and his letters. The writer intended to settle there in case he was exiled from Russia, because he felt the affinity of living in Norway with that in Russia, he called Norway his ‘second motherland’. The author of the article considers Norway as a significant place in A. I. Solzhenitsyn’s worldview geography.
