21 Facts About Yevgeny Zamyatin

The son of a Russian Orthodox priest, Yevgeny Zamyatin lost his faith in Christianity at an early age and became a Bolshevik.

Yevgeny Zamyatin is most famous for his highly influential and widely imitated 1921 dystopian science fiction novel We, which is set in a futuristic police state.

Ultimately, Yevgeny Zamyatin arranged for We to be smuggled to the West for publication.

Yevgeny Zamyatin's father was a Russian Orthodox priest and schoolmaster, and his mother a musician.

Yevgeny Zamyatin studied engineering for the Imperial Russian Navy in Saint Petersburg, from 1902 until 1908.

In December 1905, Yevgeny Zamyatin agreed to hide in his flat a paper bag filled with the explosive pyroxylin.

However, Yevgeny Zamyatin later wrote that he could not stand life among the devoutly Russian Orthodox peasantry of Lebedyan.

Yevgeny Zamyatin was arrested and exiled a second time in 1911.

In 1913, Yevgeny Zamyatin was granted an amnesty as part of the celebrations for 300-years of rule by the House of Romanov and granted the right to return to St Petersburg.

Yevgeny Zamyatin supervised the building of the Krassin, which retained the distinction of being the most powerful icebreaker in the world into the 1950s.

Yevgeny Zamyatin is considered too short to bear children and is deeply grieved by her state in life.

Yevgeny Zamyatin begins dreaming, which people of the One State know to be a serious mental illness.

Yevgeny Zamyatin further criticized "these nimble authors" for knowing "when to sing hail to the Tsar, and when to the Hammer and Sickle".

Yevgeny Zamyatin wrote a number of short stories, in fairy-tale form, that constituted satirical criticism of Communist ideology.

Yevgeny Zamyatin smuggled the original Russian text to Marc Lvovich Slonim, the editor of an anti-communist Russian emigre magazine and publishing house based in Prague.

Yevgeny Zamyatin was repeatedly attacked as a bourgeois intellectual, out of tune with the revolution.

Yevgeny Zamyatin was dismissed from his editorial posts; magazines and publishing houses closed their doors to him; those which ventured to publish his work were persecuted; his plays were withdrawn from the stage.

Yevgeny Zamyatin was, in effect, presented with the choice of repudiating his work and his views, or total expulsion from literature.

In 1931, Yevgeny Zamyatin appealed directly to Soviet General Secretary Joseph Stalin, requesting permission to leave the Soviet Union.

Yevgeny Zamyatin died in poverty of a heart attack on 10 March 1937.

The Communist Party of the Soviet Union's vengeance against Yevgeny Zamyatin for sending his novel We to the West for publication was remembered by Soviet poets and writers long after the writer's death.