• I was a writer born in Lebedyan, Russia.
  • In 1914 I wrote a novella satirising the lives of army officers and was subsequently tried for ‘maligning the officer corps.’
  • Between 1916 and 1917 I lived in Newcastle upon Tyne, where I wrote two satires on the British.
  • In 1920 I wrote My (We), a fantasy set in the 26th century which prophesied the Russian totalitarian state.
  • Hounded by Russian authorities, in 1931 I left Russia with the aide of Maxim Gorky and settled in Paris.

 

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