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Zaitsev Boris Konstantinovich (1881 - 1972), prose writer. Born in Orel in the family of a mining engineer.

In 1906, his acquaintance with Bunin goes into close friendship, which will remain until the last days of their lives.

In Moscow, in 1912, the cooperative "Book publishing of writers" is formed, which includes Bunin and Zaitsev, Teleshov and Shmelev, etc.; Here, in the collections of the Word, Zaitsev prints such significant works as “Blue Star”, “Mother and Katya”, “Travelers”. Here begins the publication of his first collected works in seven volumes.

The thirty -five -year -old writer in 1916 became a cadet of a military school in Moscow, and in 1917 - an officer of the reserve of the infantry regiment. He did not have to fight - the revolution began. Zaitsev is trying to find a place for himself in this destructive world, which is given with great difficulty, much outrages, is unacceptable.

Participates in the work of the Moscow Educational Commission. Further, joyful events (publications of books) are replaced by tragic: the son of his wife (from his first marriage) is arrested and shot, the father dies.

In 1921, he was elected as chairman of the Writers' Union, in the same year cultural figures join the Committee for Assistance to the Starring, and a month later they are arrested and taken to Lubyanka. Zaitsev is released a few days later, he leaves for Pritykino and returns to Moscow in the spring of 1922, where he gets sick with typhoid. After recovery, he decides with his family to go abroad to improve health.

Thanks to the assistance of Lunacharsky, he receives a visa and leaves Russia. At first he lives in Berlin, works a lot, then in 1924 he arrives in Paris, meets with Bunin, Kuprin, Merezhkovsky and forever remains in the capital of the Emigrant Abroad.

Zaitsev is actively working until the end of his days, writes a lot, is printed. He carries out a long -planned one - writes artistic biographies of people dear to him, writers: “Turgenev’s Life” (1932), “Zhukovsky” (1951), “Chekhov” (1954).

In 1964, he writes his last story "River of Time", which will give the name and its last book.

The main advantage of his stories, stories, novels, plays was the joy of life, the bright optimistic beginning of his worldview.

January 21, 1972 at the age of 91, Zaitsev died in Paris. He was buried in the cemetery of Saint-Genevuev-de-Bois. (Russian writers and poets. Brief biographical dictionary. Moscow, 2000.)