Nationality Estonia Children Heli Susi Role Lawyer | Name Arnold Susi Occupation Lawyer | |
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Born January 4, 1896 ( 1896-01-04 ) North Caucasus Known for The Gulag Archipelago by
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Died May 29, 1968, Tallinn, Estonia | ||
Arnold Susi (4 January 1896 – 29 May 1968) was a lawyer and the Minister of Education in the Estonian government of Otto Tief established on 18 September 1944 during WWII.
Susi was born in North Caucasus. He befriended Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in a Soviet prison. When writing The Gulag Archipelago Solzhenitsyn hid at Susi's country house in Estonia. Solzhenitsyn also briefly describes his meeting with Arnold Susi in that book. Susi also wrote his memoirs of World War I in Doom of the Russian Empire (in Estonian: Vene impeeriumi hukk), which he wrote while in Abakan. He died in Tallinn, aged 72.
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