Alexander Solzhenitsyn is a bright and honest writer of realistic and historical prose. He spent eight years in the camps, was the first Soviet writer to talk about the repressions of the Soviet government and truthfully told readers about the Gulag. “For the moral strength gleaned from the tradition of great Russian literature,” Alexander Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize. Forced to live in the 1970-1990s, first in Europe, then in America, A.I. Solzhenitsyn carefully observed public sentiment, the work of a free press, and various forms of government. He was upset by the distorted presentation of the Russian historical retrospective, the misunderstanding of Russia by the West, he saw new dangers threatening modern civilization, warned about the Slavic tragedy of Russians and Ukrainians, about the destructive intensity of passions around the Russian-Ukrainian issue. The book “It will be extremely painful with Ukraine” tells about all this, which turns out to be more relevant today than ever. The publishing layout of the book is saved in PDF A4 format.