List of Illustrations VIII Introduction 1 Chapter 1: From Lebedian’ to St Petersburg (1884-1906) 6 Chapter 2: From Astrakhan to Arkhangel’sk (1906-1916) 25 Chapter 3: From Petrograd to Newcastle upon Tyne (1916-1917) 51 Chapter 4: Petrograd (1917-1921) 86 Chapter 5: Petrograd/Leningrad (1922-1925) 117 Chapter 6: Leningrad (1926-1929) 154 Chapter 7: From Koktebel’ to the Warsaw Station (1929-1931) 198 Chapter 8: From Riga to Cagnes (1931-1932) 225 Chapter 9: Paris (1933-1937) 258 Conclusion 307 Bibliography 357 Acknowledgments 373 Index 375
Julie Curtis is a Fellow of Wolfson College, University of Oxford, where she has been teaching Russian since 1991. She is the author of two books about Evgeny Zamiatin's close friend and contemporary Mikhail Bulgakov, including a biography (Manuscripts Don't Burn: Mikhail Bulgakov-A Life in Letters and Diaries). She also has a particular interest in Russian drama from Pushkin to the present day. In the course of her research on Zamiatin's life she discovered a unique original typescript of his most famous novel, the science-fiction anti-utopia We (1920), which George Orwell read and admired as he was planning his own Nineteen Eighty Four. Her scholarly edition of Zamiatin's We, co-edited with Marina Liubimova, was published in St Petersburg in 2011, and provided Russian readers for the first time with an authentic text of this classic work.
“This new biography, the product of many years research in archives
in the US, France, and Russia, is by far the most detailed account
of this writer’s life to have been published so far and constitutes
a landmark in the study of twentieth-century modernist fiction and
Russian cultural life more broadly. The appeal of this monograph
lies not only in its patient exploration of the significant
personal events in Zamiatin’s life, but also in its impressive
grasp of the social, political, and cultural events which shaped
him. … Not only has Curtis woven this existing body of material
into an elegantly written and compelling biographical narrative,
she has also discovered archival materials of her own which shed
important light on aspects of Zamiatin’s life and literary career
which were hitherto shrouded in relative mystery. … It is a model
of judicious and meticulous excavation, and a monumental
achievement.” —Philip Cavendish, University College London,
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