Name Boris Lavrenyov Role Writer | Movies The Seventh Companion | |
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Born July 17, 1891
Kherson, Russia ( 1891-07-17 ) Died January 7, 1959, Moscow, Russia Books The forty first, Sorok Pervyi, Sorok Pervyj Similar People Grigory Chukhray, Leonid Leonov, Isaak Babel, Alexey Novikov‑Priboy, Konstantin Fedin | ||
Education Moscow State University | ||
Boris Andreyevich Lavrenyov (Russian: Борис Андреевич Лавренёв) (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.