Zamyatin E.I. (1884-1937), writer

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ZAMYATIN Evgeny Ivanovich (1884-1937) prose writer, playwright, literary critic. In 1902 entered the Ship-Building Faculty of the Polytechnical Institute; his studies were interrupted by an arrest and exile for revolutionary activities. He illegally returned to St. Petersburg to finish study (1908) and continued working in the Applied Naval Architecture Department of the Institute. His stories were published from 1908. In 1911 he was banished from St. Petersburg, lived in Sestroretsk and Lakhta, where he worked on the novel A Provincial Tale (1913), in which the depiction of the gloomy everyday life of Province is done following the traditions of N.V. Gogol, M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin, G.I. Uspensky, M. Gorky. After the amnesty of 1913, he lived in St. Petersburg for a short period of time, entered the circle of authors of the Zavety journal. Returned to St. Petersburg in September 1917, continued writing fiction and journalistic articles. He was arrested twice by bodies of All-Russian Extraordinary Commission (Cheka); was expelled from Russia in 1922, but the intercession of influential friends led to his return. Zamyatin was a prominent figure of Petrograd - Leningrad literary life of the 1920s: a contributor of World Literature Publishing House, Publishing House of Z.I. Grzhebin, Alkonost, Petropolis, Mysl; worked as an editor of Dom iskusstv (House of Arts), Sovremenny Zapad and Russky Sovremennik; a board member (then Vice-Chairman) of Leningrad Department of Union of Writers. Zamyatin's most prominent work, innovative in genre and style, is the anti-utopian novel We (1919-21); after the Soviet publishing houses refused to publish it, translations of the novel in some European languages appeared, in 1927 it was published in Russian in the journal Volya Rossii in Prague. In 1929 this fact became a reason for political accusations of Zamyatin and the cessation of publishing of his works. In October 1931 with the assistance of Gorky Zamyatin left the USSR, lived in Paris, where he continued writing. The author of memoirs on L.N. Andreev, A.A. Blok, Gorky, F. Sologub and others. In Petrograd - Leningrad lived at 36 Mokhovaya Street.

References: Чудакова М. О. Еретик, или Матрос на мачте // Замятин Е. И. Сочинения. М., 1988. С. 498-523; Новое о Замятине: Сб. материалов. М., 1998; Давыдова Т. Т. Творческая эволюция Евгения Замятина в контексте русской литературы первой трети XX века. М., 2000.

T. M. Dvinyatina. Andreev Leonid Nikolaevich
Blok G.P.
Gogol Nikolay Vasilievich
Gorky Maxim (Alexey Maximovich Peshkov)
Grzhebin Zinovy Isaevich
Saltykov-Shchedrin (real name Saltykov) Mikhail Evgrafovich
Sologub Fedor (real name Teternikov Fedor Kuzmich)
Uspensky Gleb Ivanovich
Zamyatin Evgeny Ivanovich
Mokhovaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 36
Чудакова М. О. Еретик, или Матрос на мачте // Замятин Е. И. Сочинения. М., 1988
Давыдова Т. Т. Творческая эволюция Евгения Замятина в контексте русской литературы первой трети XX века. М., 2000
Новое о Замятине: Сб. материалов. М., 1998 Zavety (Behests), journal, 1912-1914
World of Literature, publishing house, 1918-1924
Alkonost, publishing house, 1918-1923