Life and work
About Yevgeny Zamyatin
He also wrote short fiction, plays and essays and worked in shipbuilding. Satire, formal experimentation and the relationship between people and authority recur in his writing. He spent his final years in Paris, while We became a significant work in the history of dystopian fiction.

Portrait of Yevgeny Zamyatin by Boris Kustodiev (1923). Boris Kustodiev.