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Yevgeny Zamyatin

Died in 1937

Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884-1937), born in Lebedyan, the son of a priest, studied naval engineering in Saint Petersburg from 1902 to 1908. A Bolshevik in his youth, he was arrested during the revolution of 1905, then exiled again in 1911. In 1916 and 1917, he oversaw in England the construction of Russian icebreakers. Back in Russia, he drifted away from the party and was increasingly censored. In 1931, he wrote to Stalin to ask to leave, and settled in Paris, where he died on 10 March 1937.

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