BORIS LAVBENYOV

Boris Lavrenyov’s name is closely bound up with the early days of Soviet literature and the Soviet theatre. He put it this way—"my literary birth took place after the revolution”. His play The Break-Up was first produced in 1927 and today is still in the repertoire of the Moscow Art Theatre and many other Soviet theatres. Lavrenyov (1891-1959) is a dramatic writer; this is especially true of his stories, long and short, which are filled with the heroic romanticism of the revolutionary epoch. The Forty First is one of his best-known tales.

In memory of Pavel Dmitriyevich Zhukov