Yevgeny Zamyatin by Boris Kustodiev (1923)

Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin (Евге́ний Ива́нович Замя́тин sometimes translated into English as Eugene Zamyatin) (February 1, 1884 – March 10, 1937) was a Russian author, most famous for his novel We, a story of dystopian future which influenced George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. Image File history File links Kustodiev_Zamyatin. ... Image File history File links Kustodiev_Zamyatin. ... Self-Portrait in front of Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra, 1912 Boris Mikhaylovich Kustodiev (Russian: ) (March 7, 1878–May 28, 1927) was a Russian art deco painter. ... 1923 (MCMXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... February 1 is the 32nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1884 (MDCCCLXXXIV) is a leap year starting on Tuesday (click on link to calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Thursday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... March 10 is the 69th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (70th in leap years). ... 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... The cover of the Penguin Classics translation of We. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... It has been suggested that Eileen OShaughnessy be merged into this article or section. ... Nineteen Eighty-Four (commonly abbreviated to 1984) is a dystopian novel by the English writer George Orwell, and first published by Secker and Warburg in 1949. ... Aldous Leonard Huxley (July 26, 1894 – November 22, 1963) was an English writer who emigrated to the United States, living in Los Angeles until his death in 1963. ... Original book cover of Brave New World. ...

Zamyatin also wrote a number of short stories, in fairy tale form, that constituted satirical criticism of the Communist regime in Russia such as in a story about a city where the mayor decides that to make everyone happy he should make everyone equal. He starts by forcing every one, himself included, to live in a big barrack, then to shave heads to be equal to the bald, and then to become mentally disabled to equate intelligence downward. This plot is very similar to that of The New Utopia (1891) by Jerome K. Jerome whose collected works were published three times in Russia before 1917. This article is about communism as a form of society and as a political movement. ... Jerome K. Jerome Jerome Klapka Jerome (May 2, 1859–June 14, 1927) was an English author, best known for the humorous travelogue Three Men in a Boat. ...

Zamyatin was born in Lebedian, Russia, two hundred miles south of Moscow. His father was a Russian Orthodox priest and schoolmaster and his mother a musician. He studied naval engineering in St. Petersburg from 1902 until 1908 during which time he joined the Bolsheviks. He was arrested during the Russian Revolution of 1905 and exiled, but returned to St. Petersburg where he lived illegally before moving to Finland in 1906 to finish his studies. Returning to Russia he began to write fiction as a hobby. He was arrested and exiled a second time in 1911 but amnestied in 1913. His Ujezdnoje (A Provincial Tale) in 1913, which satirized life in a small Russian town, brought him a degree of fame. The next year he was tried for maligning the military in his story Na Kulichkakh. He continued to contribute articles to various socialist newspapers. Location Position of Moscow in Europe Government Country District Subdivision Russia Central Federal District Federal City Mayor Yuriy Luzhkov Geographical characteristics Area  - City 1,081 km² Population  - City (2005)    - Density 10,415,400   8537. ... The Russian Orthodox Church (Русская Православная церковь) is that body of Christians who are united under the Patriarch of Moscow, who in turn is in communion with... Saint Petersburg (Russian: Санкт-Петербу́рг, English transliteration: Sankt-Peterburg), colloquially known as Питер (transliterated Piter), formerly known as Leningrad (Ленингра́д, 1924–1991) and... 1902 (MCMII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1908 (MCMVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Leaders of the Bolshevik Party and the Communist International, a painting by Malcolm McAllister on the Pathfinder Mural in New York City and on the cover of the book Lenin’s Final Fight published by Pathfinder. ... The Russian Revolution of 1905 was an empire-wide spasm of both anti-government and undirected violence. ... 1906 (MCMVI) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 1911 (MCMXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). ... Amnesty (from the Greek amnestia, oblivion) is an act of justice by which the supreme power in a state restores those who may have been guilty of any offence against it to the position of innocent persons. ... 1913 (MCMXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday. ... 1913 (MCMXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday. ... Socialism is a social and economic system (or the political philosophy advocating such a system) in which the economic means of production are owned and controlled collectively by the people. ...

After graduating as a naval engineer, he worked professionally at home and abroad. In 1916 he was sent to England to supervise the construction of icebreakers at the shipyards in Walker and Wallsend while living in Newcastle upon Tyne. He wrote The Islanders satirising English life, and its pendant A Fisher of Men, both published after his return to Russia in late 1917. 1916 (MCMXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... US Coast Guard icebreakers near McMurdo Station, February 2002 Icebreaker Polarstern An icebreaker is a special purpose ship designed to move and navigate through ice-covered marine environments. ... Walker is a residential suburb just east of the centre of Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom. ... Wallsend is a town on the north bank of the River Tyne in North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England. ... This article is about a city in the United Kingdom. ...

After the Russian Revolution of 1917 he edited several journals, lectured on writing and edited Russian translations of works by Jack London, O. Henry, H. G. Wells and others. The Russian Revolution of 1917 was a series of political events in Russia, involving first the overthrow of the system of autocracy, and then the overthrow of the liberal Provisional Government (Duma), resulting in the establishment of the Soviet power under the control of the Bolshevik party. ... Jack London, probably born John Griffith Chaney (January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916)[4][5][6] was an American author who wrote The Call of the Wild and over fifty other books. ... William Sydney Porter in his thirties O. Henry was the pen name of American writer William Sydney Porter (September 11, 1862–June 5, 1910), whose clever use of twist endings in his stories popularized the term O. Henry Ending. His middle name at birth was Sidney, not Sydney; he later... Herbert George Wells (September 21, 1866 – August 13, 1946) was an English writer best known for such science fiction novels as The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man, and The Island of Doctor Moreau. ...

Zamyatin supported the October Revolution but opposed the system of censorship under the Bolsheviks. His works were increasingly critical of the regime. He boldly stated: "True literature can only exist when it is created, not by diligent and reliable officials, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels and sceptics". This attitude caused his position to become increasingly difficult as the 1920s wore on. Ultimately, his works were banned and he wasn't permitted to publish, particularly after the publication of We in a Russian emigré journal in 1927. Bolshevik (1920), by Boris Kustodiev. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... 1920 (MCMXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January January 3 - Babe Ruth is traded by the Boston Red Sox to the New York Yankees for $125,000, the largest sum ever paid for a player at that time. ... The cover of the Penguin Classics translation of We. ... 1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Zamyatin was eventually given permission to leave Russia by Stalin in 1931, after the intercession of Gorki. He settled in Paris with his wife, where he died in poverty of a heart attack in 1937. Stalin redirects here. ... 1931 (MCMXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link is to a full 1931 calendar). ... Gorkys autographed portrait Aleksei Maksimovich Peshkov (In Russian Алексей Максимович Пешков) (March 28 [O.S. March 16] 1868–June 14, 1936), better known as Maxim Gorky (Максим Горький), was a Soviet/Russian author, a founder of the socialist realism literary method and a political activist. ... City flag City coat of arms Motto: Fluctuat nec mergitur (Latin: Tossed by the waves, she does not sink) Location Coordinates Time Zone CET (GMT +1) Administration Country France Région ÃŽle-de-France Département Paris (75) Subdivisions 20 arrondissements Mayor Bertrand Delanoë  (PS) (since 2001) City Statistics Land... A myocardial infarction occurs when an atherosclerotic plaque slowly builds up in the inner lining of a coronary artery and then suddenly ruptures, totally occluding the artery and preventing blood flow downstream. ... 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ...

He is buried in Thiais, just south of Paris. Ironically, the cemetery of his final resting place is on Rue de Stalingrad. Thiais is a commune in the southern suburbs of Paris, France. ...

Portraits

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References

• Fischer, Peter A. (Autumn 1971). "Review of The Life and Works of Evgenij Zamjatin by Alex M. Shane". Slavic and East European Journal 15 (3): 388-390.
• Myers, Alan (1990). "Evgenii Zamiatin in Newcastle". The Slavonic and East European Review 68 (1): 91-99.
• Shane, Alex M. (1968). The life and works of Evgenij Zamjatin. University of California Press.
• Zamyatin, Yevgeny (1994). A Soviet heretic : essays, Mirra Ginsburg (editor and translator), Quartet Books Ltd.

External links

• Biography of Yevgeny Zamyatin from a Science Fiction website
• Biography from a website on George Orwell.
• Encyclopedia of Soviet Writers biography of Yevgeny Zamyatin
• Yevgeny Zamyatin at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• The Lion complete text of the short story by Zamyatin. (1935)
• Zamyatin in Newcastle article by Alan Myers
• Review of We
• Review of We by Priya Jain
• The "twists and turns" of Yevgeny Zamiatin's Life brief, illustrated biography by Tatyana Kukushkina
• Collected works (Russian) including his Autobiography (1929) and Letter to Stalin (1931)