Russians have been paying their last respects to writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who died on Sunday 3rd of August 2008 at the age of 89.
The open coffin of Solzhenitsyn, whose books revealed the horrors of Stalin's regime, is lying in state at the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow.
People bearing flowers filed past the coffin making the sign of the cross.
His body will be buried in an Orthodox ceremony at the 16th Century Donskoi Monastery in the capital on Wednesday 6th of August.