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Evgeniy Ivanovich Zamyatin
Евгений Замятин
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1 February 1884 - 10 March 1937
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Talented Russian writer Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin was born on January 20, 1884 in the city of Lebedyan of Tambov province in the family of a poor nobleman. All his childhood spent on home education, without friends, and therefore from early childhood addicted to reading.
After graduating with a gold medal from the Voronezh Gymnasium, Yevgeny in 1902 entered the St. Petersburg Polytechnic Institute at the shipbuilding faculty, where he received the opportunity to travel thanks to summer practice.
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Talented Russian writer Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin was born on January 20, 1884 in the city of Lebedyan of Tambov province in the family of a poor nobleman. All his childhood spent on home education, without friends, and therefore from early childhood addicted to reading.
After graduating with a gold medal from the Voronezh Gymnasium, Yevgeny in 1902 entered the St. Petersburg Polytechnic Institute at the shipbuilding faculty, where he received the opportunity to travel thanks to summer practice.
Zamyatin’s debut novel “Uyezdnoe”, published in the St. Petersburg magazine “Testaments” in 1908, was highly appreciated by critics and modern writers. The author attributed his prose to the literary direction, which he called neorealism.
In 1916, Zamyatin participated in the construction of Russian icebreakers in England, later writing a series of essays on his impressions of the Western social system, as well as the novels “The Islanders” (1917) and “The Catcher of People” (1921).
Returning to Petrograd in 1917, Zamyatin became one of the most prominent figures in the literary community. In addition to editing several literary journals, Zamyatin taught at the Polytechnic Institute and the Herzen Pedagogical Institute, was a board member of the All-Russian Union of Writers, and also worked as an editor of World Literature.
Zamyatin embodied his observations of the totalitarian regime in the dystopian novel “We” (1920), which became the first among European novels of this genre, such as “The Zoo farm” and “1984” by J. Orwell, “Beautiful New World” by O. Huxley, “451 degrees Fahrenheit” by R. Bradbury. Even without publications in the USSR, the novel was ideologically defeated by Soviet critics who read it in manuscript, and in fact Zamyatin was forbidden to write.
In 1931, thanks to the assistance of Maxim Gorky, Zamyatin managed to emigrate to France, where he died on March 10, 1937 in Paris.