WRITER

Yevgeny Zamyatin

1884 - 1937

Photo of Yevgeny Zamyatin

Icon of person Yevgeny Zamyatin

Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin (Russian: Евге́ний Ива́нович Замя́тин, IPA: [jɪvˈɡʲenʲɪj ɪˈvanəvʲɪdʑ zɐˈmʲætʲɪn]; 1 February [O.S. 20 January] 1884 – 10 March 1937), sometimes anglicized as Eugene Zamyatin, was a Russian author of science fiction, philosophy, literary criticism, and political satire. The son of a Russian Orthodox priest, Zamyatin lost his faith in Christianity at an early age and became a Bolshevik. As a member of his Party's Pre-Revolutionary underground, Zamyatin was repeatedly arrested, beaten, imprisoned, and exiled. However, Zamyatin was just as deeply disturbed by the policies pursued by the All-Union Communist Party (b) [VKP (b)] following the October Revolution as he had been by Tsarist policy. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Yevgeny Zamyatin is the 493rd most popular writer (down from 460th in 2019), the 158th most popular biography from Russia (down from 154th in 2019) and the 21st most popular Russian Writer.

Yevgeny Zamyatin is most famous for his novel We, which was published in 1924.

Memorability Metrics

Loading...

Page views of Yevgeny Zamyatin by language

Loading...

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Yevgeny Zamyatin ranks 493 out of 7,302. Before him are Joris-Karl Huysmans, Ivan Bunin, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Louise Glück, Phaedrus, and Alfred Döblin. After him are Arnold Bennett, Lysias, Traudl Junge, Marie-Antoine Carême, Margaret Atwood, and Natsume Sōseki.

Most Popular Writers in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1884, Yevgeny Zamyatin ranks 22. Before him are Theodor Heuss, Friedrich Bergius, Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Theodor Svedberg, Franz Halder, and Gaston Bachelard. After him are Hermann Rorschach, Auguste Piccard, Casimir Funk, Lion Feuchtwanger, Vincent Auriol, and Emil Jannings. Among people deceased in 1937, Yevgeny Zamyatin ranks 17. Before him are Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Lou Andreas-Salomé, George Gershwin, Gustaf Dalén, Jagadish Chandra Bose, and Mikhail Tukhachevsky. After him are J. M. Barrie, Gerda Taro, Austen Chamberlain, Gaston Doumergue, Andrew Mellon, and Karol Szymanowski.

Others Born in 1884

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Others Deceased in 1937

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Yevgeny Zamyatin ranks 158 out of 3,761. Before him are Vladimir Vysotsky (1938), Anna Pavlovna of Russia (1795), Ivan Bunin (1870), Feodor II of Russia (1589), Christian Goldbach (1690), and Raisa Gorbacheva (1932). After him are Semyon Budyonny (1883), Lyudmila Putina (1958), Patriarch Kirill of Moscow (1946), Genrikh Yagoda (1891), Ivan Shishkin (1832), and Sofia Gubaidulina (1931).

Others born in Russia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Yevgeny Zamyatin ranks 21. Before him are Mikhail Lermontov (1814), Mikhail Sholokhov (1905), Joseph Brodsky (1940), Sergei Yesenin (1895), Vladimir Vysotsky (1938), and Ivan Bunin (1870). After him are Ivan Goncharov (1812), Alexander Herzen (1812), Ivan Krylov (1769), Marina Tsvetaeva (1892), Nikolay Chernyshevsky (1828), and Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1883).

Russian born Writers

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous