Boris Lavrenyov
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Boris Lavrenyov | |
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Born | Boris Andreyevich Sergeyev 16 July 1891 Kherson, Russian Empire |
Died | 7 January 1959 Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union | (aged 67)
Boris Andreyevich Lavrenyov (Russian: Борис Андреевич Лавренёв) (real name Sergeyev), (16 July [O.S. 4 July] 1891 – 7 January 1959) was a Soviet Russian writer and playwright.[1]
Lavrenyov was born to the family of a literature teacher. He received his education at the Law department of the Moscow University. At the time he wrote poetry and joined a Moscow Futurists group called Mezonin poezii (A Mezzanine of Poetry). He fought in World War I and the Russian Civil War. During the latter he took part in combat in Turkmenistan, served as a commander of an armoured train, and also wrote for the Red Army military newspaper. His poetry was first published in 1911 and his prose works in 1924. He was twice awarded the Stalin Prize – in 1946 and 1950.
Lavrenyov's story "Sorok pervyi" ("The Forty-First", first published in Zvezda in 1924) was twice adapted to film, in 1927 by Yakov Protazanov and in 1956 by Grigory Chukhray.[2]
English translations
[edit]- The Forty-First, Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1926. English summary from Sovlit.net
- Such a Simple Thing, from Such a Simple Thing and Other Soviet Stories, Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1959. from Archive.org
- The Courageous Heart, Progress Publishers, 1978.
- The Heavenly Cap, from The Fatal Eggs and Other Soviet Satire, Grove Press, 1994.
References
[edit]- ^ "Lavrenev, Boris Andreevich // Brief literary encyclopedia / Ch. ed. A. A. Surkov. - M.: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1962-1978". feb-web.ru. Archived from the original on 2016-03-07. Retrieved 2020-12-12.
- ^ "Маша, Марютка, Маргарита. Пять сильных женщин классической русской литературы" [Masha, Maryutka, Margarita. The Five Strong Women of Russian Classical Literature]. godliteratury.ru (in Russian). God Literatury. 8 March 2019. Retrieved 7 December 2021.
See also
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- 1891 births
- 1953 deaths
- 20th-century Russian male writers
- 20th-century Russian short story writers
- Military personnel from Kherson
- Writers from Kherson
- Imperial Moscow University alumni
- Recipients of the Stalin Prize
- Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
- People of the Russian Civil War
- Socialist realism writers
- Russian male dramatists and playwrights
- Russian male novelists
- Russian male short story writers
- Russian military personnel of World War I
- Soviet dramatists and playwrights
- Soviet magazine editors
- Soviet male writers
- Soviet novelists
- Soviet short story writers
- Russian writer stubs
- Soviet war correspondents
- Burials at Novodevichy Cemetery