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Boris Lavrenyov
Born	Boris Andreyevich Sergeyev ( 1891-07-16 ) 16 July 1891 Kherson , Russian Empire
Died	7 January 1959 (1959-01-07) (aged 67) Moscow , Russian SFSR , Soviet Union

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 ]

See also [ edit ]

• The Seventh Companion

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