On October 20, a monument to Alexander Solzhenitsyn was dismantled in central Vladivostok, where it had stood since 2015. It was supposed to be moved to a park commemorating victims of political repression, but the very next day it was unexpectedly put back. The official explanation was that it was too large for the new site. Vladivostok’s role in this story is no coincidence. It was there that Solzhenitsyn began his journey across Russia in 1994, after 20 years in exile.