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Evgenii Ivanovich Zamiatin Collection, 1918-1936: Finding Aid
C0824
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Published in 2002
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Summary Information
- Creator:
- Zamiatin, Evgenii Ivanovich, 1884-1937.
- Title and dates:
- Evgenii Ivanovich Zamiatin Collection, 1918-1936
- Abstract:
- Consists of selected papers in Russian and English of Russian playwright, novelist, and storywriter Evgenii Ivanovich Zamiatin, primarily after 1931, when he emigrated to Paris, France. Included are autograph and typed manuscripts, articles, and letters.
- Size:
- 0.6 linear feet (1 box)
- Call number:
- C0824
- Location:
- Princeton University Library. Department of Rare Books and Special Collections.
Manuscripts Division.
Princeton, New Jersey 08544 USA - Language(s) of material:
- Russian and English.
- Storage note:
- This collection is stored onsite at Firestone Library.
Biography of Evgenii Ivanovich Zamiatin
Evgenii Ivanovich Zamiatin was a Russian playwright, novelist, and storywriter.
Description
Consists of selected papers, in Russian and English, of Zamiatin, primarily after 1931, when he emigrated to Paris, France. Included are autograph and typed manuscripts for a short story, "The Dragon," two articles, "The Modern Russian Theater" and "The Future of the Theater," and four synopses or scenarios for film or theater treatments, "D-503" (a film scenario for Zamiatin's negative utopian novel We), "The Flea," "In Siberia," and "Master of Asia." Also present are nine letters (1932-1933) to George Reavey, the Irish poet and translator of Russian literature, and one letter (1934) to the theater director Theodore Komisarjevsky.
Arrangement
Organized into the following series:
Access and Use
Access
Collection is open for research use.
Restrictions on Use and Copyright Information
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. No further photoduplication of copies of material in the collection can be made when Princeton University Library does not own the original. Permission to publish material from the collection must be requested from the Associate University Librarian for Rare Books and Special Collections. The library has no information on the status of literary rights in the collection and researchers are responsible for determining any questions of copyright.
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Finding aid written in English.
Preferred Citation
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Evgenii Ivanovich Zamiatin Collection, Box and Folder Number; Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.
Subject Headings
These materials have been indexed in the Princeton University Library online catalog using the following terms. Those seeking related materials should search under these terms.
- Dramatists, Russian -- 20th century -- Correspondence.
- Novelists, Russian -- 20th century -- Correspondence.
- Russian literature -- Film and video adaptations.
- Russian literature -- 20th century.
- Theater -- Russian -- 20th century.
- Utopias in literature.
- Correspondence.
- Film and video adaptations.
- Manuscripts.
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Contents List
Series 1: Writings
“D - 503”, undated
synopsis of a film scenario for the novel We, TMsS (in English) with autograph corrections, 4 pp.
Box 1, Folder 1 “The Dragon” [Drakon], [1918]
short story, AMsS (in Russian), 3 pp.
Box 1, Folder 2 “The Flea” [Blokha], [1925]
synopsis of a play in 4 acts, TMs (in English), 4 pp.
Box 1, Folder 3 “The Future of the Theater” [Budushchee teatra], undated
article, AMsS (in Russian), 9 pp.
Box 1, Folder 4 “In Siberia” [Na Kulichkakh], undated
synopsis of a novel, TMs (in English), 4 pp.
Box 1, Folder 5 “Master of Asia”, [1936]
scenario, “registered by the Société des Auteurs in Paris,” TMsS (in English), with autograph corrections, 18 pp.
Box 1, Folder 6 “The Modern Russian Theater”, undated
article, TMsS (in English), with autograph corrections, 20 pp.
Box 1, Folder 7 Series 2: Correspondence (letters by Zamiatin)
Komisarjevsky, Theodore, (1882-1954)
1 ALS (in Russian), 1934
Box 1, Folder 8 Reavey, George, (1907-1976)
4 ALsS, 4 ACsS (in English), 1932
Box 1, Folder 9 1 ALS (in Russian), 1933
Box 1, Folder 9 Series 3: Printed Matter
1 invitation to a “Soiré Littéraire du Eugène Zamiatine” at the Salle du Grand Orient de France, 1932
Box 1, Folder 10
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