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Boris Andreyevich Lavrenyov () (real name Sergeyev), (16 July O.S. 4 July">Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates.html" ;"title="nowiki/>Old Style and New Style dates">O.S. 4 July1891 – 7 January 1959) was a Soviet Union">Soviet The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet ...

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

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group called ''Mezonin poezii'' (A Mezzanine of Poetry). He fought in

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and the

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. During the latter he took part in combat in

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, served as a commander of an

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, and also wrote for the

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military

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. His

poetry Poetry (from the Greek language, Greek word ''poiesis'', "making") is a form of literature, literary art that uses aesthetics, aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language to evoke meaning (linguistics), meanings in addition to, or in ...

was first published in 1911 and his

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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

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and in

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by Grigory Chukhray.

English translations

*''The Forty-First'', Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1926
English summary
from 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.

English translations

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