Call Number:

C0824

Repository:

Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division

Extent:

• 1 box
• 0.6 linear feet

Language:

Russian and English

Preferred Citation:

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Evgenii Ivanovich Zamiatin Collection, Box and Folder Number; Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Date:

1918-1936 (inclusive)

Creator:

Princeton University. Library. Special Collections and Zami︠a︡tin, Evgeniĭ Ivanovich, 1884-1937

Form:

Correspondence., Film and video adaptations., and Manuscripts.

Abstract:

Consists of selected papers in Russian and English of Russian playwright, novelist, and storywriter Evgenii Ivanovich Zamiatin, primarily after 1931, when he emigrated to Paris, France. Included are autograph and typed manuscripts, articles, and letters.

Evgenii Ivanovich Zamiatin was a Russian playwright, novelist, and storywriter.

Consists of selected papers, in Russian and English, of Zamiatin, primarily after 1931, when he emigrated to Paris, France. Included are autograph and typed manuscripts for a short story, "The Dragon," two articles, "The Modern Russian Theater" and "The Future of the Theater," and four synopses or scenarios for film or theater treatments, "D-503" (a film scenario for Zamiatin's negative utopian novel We), "The Flea," "In Siberia," and "Master of Asia." Also present are nine letters (1932-1933) to George Reavey, the Irish poet and translator of Russian literature, and one letter (1934) to the theater director Theodore Komisarjevsky.