Andrei Yefimovich Zarin (russian: Андрей Ефимович Зарин; 28 May 1862 – 1929) was a Russian writer of
novel
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s,
essay
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s and
short stories in the late 19th and early 20th century. He was born in
St Petersburg
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in the
Russian Empire
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, graduating from the gymnasium and entering into
Vilnius University in modern-day
Lithuania
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in 1879. His first publications were
economic
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articles in the ''Vilnius Gazette''. He started publishing novels and texts in 1881 based in his home city. He was the editor of the journal ''Stars'' and ''Pictorial Review''.
In 1906 he was imprisoned for one and a half years. He died in 1929.
Works
Novels
* «Жизнь и сон» (''Life and Dreaming'') (1891),
* «Дочь пожарного» (''Daughter of Fire'') (1892),
* «Серые герои» (''The Grey Hero'') (1893),
* «Силуэты» (''Silhouettes'') (1897);
* «Призвание» (''The Calling'') (1897)
Short story collections
* «Говорящая голова» (''Talking Head'') (1896),
* «Повести и рассказы» (''Tales and Stories'') (1896),
* «Ложный след» (''False Trail'') (1896),
* «По призванию» (''By Vocation'') (1897),
* «Под корень» (''Under the Root'') (1895),
* «Тотализатор» (''Totalisator'') (1891),
* «Сорные травы» (''Weeds'') (1890),
* «Верное сердце» (''Faithful Heart'') (1897).
External links
Profile at dic.academic.ruProfile at the Russian State Archive of Literature and Art
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1862 births
1929 deaths
Writers from Saint Petersburg
Soviet writers
Novelists from the Russian Empire
Short story writers from the Russian Empire
Vilnius University alumni