Zamyatin, Yegveny Ivanovich (also Evgeny Zamyatin)

1884 - Born in the provincial town of Lebedian in Moscow; birth of a Russian novelist and short-story writer

1902-1908 - Studied at St. Petersburg Polytechnic Institute with the course on naval engineering

1905 - Took a study trip in the Near East

- Arrested and exiled due to his revolutionary activities

1908 - Wrote his first short story "Odin," based on his experiences in prison

1911 - Got arrested again

1913 - Received amnesty

1916 - Supervised the construction of icebreakers at the Armstrong-Whitworth shipyards in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England

1917 - Member of the communist party in his youth but left it after Bolshevik revolution

1918 - Came up with satirical work entitled Ostrovitiane (The Islanders)

1919 - Was arrested

1921 - Lovets cheloveka (The Fisher of Men)

- Published an article 'I am Afraid' accusing the government of free thought suppression

- Completed his only full-length novel My

1922 - Got arrested again

1924 - Wrote a novel called We

1931 - Was allowed to emigrate to Paris

1932 - Lived in poverty

1937 - Died in Paris