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Slavic Languages and Societies

University of Richmond

Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Faculty Publications

2005

Russian Revolution

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Zamayatin, Evgeny Ivanovich (1884-1937), Yvonne Howell Sep 2005

Zamayatin, Evgeny Ivanovich (1884-1937), Yvonne Howell

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Zamayatin, Evgeny Ivanovich (1884-1967), Russian engineer, fiction writer, critic-essayist, and editor. Zamayatin was born in the provincial town of Lebedyan in central Russia. He joined the Bolshevik Party in opposition to the tsar's regime while still a student of naval engineering in the imperial capital of St. Petersburg. He was imprisoned and exiled from St. Petersburg, an experience that provided material for his first short novels and stories.

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