Boris Andreyevich Lavrenyov (russian: Борис Андреевич Лавренёв) (real name Sergeyev), (July 16
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Russian writer and playwright.
Lavrenyov was born to the family of a literature teacher. He received his education at the Law department of the Moscow State University, Moscow University. At the time he wrote poetry and joined a Moscow
Futurists
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group called ''Mezonin poezii'' (A Mezzanine of Poetry). He fought in
World War I
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and the
Russian Civil War
, date = October Revolution, 7 November 1917 – Yakut revolt, 16 June 1923{{Efn, The main phase ended on 25 October 1922. Revolt against the Bolsheviks continued Basmachi movement, in Central Asia and Tungus Republic, the Far East th ...
. During the latter he took part in combat in
Turkmenistan
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, served as a commander of an
armoured train
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, and also wrote for the
Red Army
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military
newspaper
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. His
poetry
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was first published in 1911 and his
prose
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works in 1924. He was twice awarded the
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* The State Stalin Prize in science and engineering and in arts, awarded 1941 to 1954, later known as the USSR State Prize
The USSR State Prize (russian: links=no, Государственная премия СССР, ...
– 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
Yakov Alexandrovich Protazanov (russian: Яков Александрович Протазанов; 4 February ( O.S. 23 January ) 1881 – 8 August 1945) was a Russian and Soviet film director and screenwriter, and one of the founding fathers of ...
and in
1956 by
Grigory Chukhray
Grigory Naumovich Chukhray (russian: Григо́рий Нау́мович Чухра́й; uk, Григорiй Наумович Чухрай; 23 May 1921 – 28 October 2001) was a Ukrainian Soviet and Russian film director and screenwriter. ...
.
English translations
*''The Forty-First'', Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1926
English summaryfrom 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
See also
*''
The Seventh Companion''
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
Stalin Prize winners
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
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Burials at Novodevichy Cemetery