Boris Andreyevich Mozhayev was a Soviet Russian author, dramatist, script-writer and editor, the USSR State Prize laureate, best known for his novel Zhivoy and the two-part epic Peasant Men and Women.
11 Facts About Boris Mozhayev
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Boris Andreyevich Mozhayev was born on June 1,1923, in Ryazanskaya Oblast, to an Oka River steamship pilot; all of his ancestors have been one way or another connected to Oka, Volga or the Caspian Sea, where they worked as sailors, skippers, navigators, even burlaks.
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In 1935, during the Stalin purges, Andrey Boris Mozhayev was arrested and deported to the Russian far East where he died.
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Boris Mozhayev was one of the six children his mother had to raise on her own.
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In 1940, after graduating the secondary school, Boris Mozhayev enrolled into the shipbuilding faculty of the Gorky Institute of Navy Transport Engineers.
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Boris Mozhayev had to leave it due to financial difficulties and, after working as a teacher for half a year, got drafted.
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In 1948, after the graduation in the rank of a lieutenant-engineer, Boris Mozhayev went to the Soviet Far East, to build fortifications in Port Arthur.
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Mikhail Kedrov's production of Boris Mozhayev's play Having Lied Once was banned by the Soviet Ministry of Culture.
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In 1980 Boris Mozhayev finished his magnum opus Peasant Men and Women a two-part epic telling the story of collectivization at Ryazanshchina, the subsequent peasant mutiny and its brutal suppression.
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Boris Mozhayev was planning a trilogy but could manage only several chapters of the third, autobiographical part, called Izgoy.
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Boris Andreyevich Mozhayev died on March 2,1996, in Moscow.