![]() He was again imprisoned and exiled in 1911, but was released under an amnesty in 1913. He graduated in 1908, and began lecturing at the Polytechnic Institute himself. He spent some time in Finland, but also continued to live surreptitiously in St Petersburg, continuing with his studies. His studies were interrupted in 1905 when he was imprisoned and exiled for his role in the abortive revolution of that year. He studied Naval Engineering at St Petersburg Polytechnic Institute from 1902 to 1908. He went to school in Lebedian and then in Voronezh. ![]() Zamyatin (or Zamiatin, or Zamjatin) was born in Lebedian, the son of an Orthodox priest and schoolmaster. For more, see Darko Suvin in the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. ![]() While in England in 1917 Zamyatin wrote a shorter piece which is a kind of trial run for We: Ostrovityane ( Islanders) is a novella which satirises English philistinism and abandonment of individualism. The narrator is D-503, who has a doomed love affair with a revolutionary woman, I-330. It was an inspiration for Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949). ![]() ![]() It was set in the 26th century AD, in a totalitarian state where citizens were called “numbers”. Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin (1884-1937) wrote one of the most famous dystopian novels of the twentieth century: My (in Russian), translated as We in 1924. ![]()
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