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Jul 05, 1891 Kherson, Ukraine Died on 07 Jan 1959 (aged 67)
Russian writer
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About Boris Lavrenyov
- Boris Andreyevich Lavrenyov (Russian: ????? ????????? ????????) (real name Sergeyev), born July 5 (17), 1891 in Kherson, died January 7, 1959 in Moscow, was a Soviet Russian writer and playwright. Lavrenyov was born to the family of a literature teacher.
- He got his education at the Law department of the Moscow University.
- At the time he wrote poetry and joined a Moscow Futurists group called Mezonin poezii (A Mezzanine of Poetry).
- He fought in World War I and the Russian Civil War.
- During the latter he took part in combat in Turkmenistan, served as a commander of an armoured train, and also wrote for the Red Army military newspaper.
- His poetry was first published in 1911 and his prose works in 1924.
- He was twice awarded the Stalin Prize – 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 and in 1956 by Grigori Chukhrai.
