Portrait of Boris Zaitsev

Boris Konstantinovich Zaytsev (10 February 1881 – 22 January 1972) was a Russian prose writer and dramatist, and a member of the Moscow literary group Sreda. He attended the Imperial Technical Institute in Moscow, the Institute of Mines in Saint Petersburg, and the Law School at the University of Moscow, without graduating from any of them. He first began publishing his fictional works in 1901, and several of his stories were published in the journal The New Direction ran. His first collection of stories was published in 1906. His first novel, A Distant Journey, appeared in 1912. He was chairman of the Moscow Union of Writers from 1921 to 1922. In 1922 he was allowed to move to Paris for health reasons, where he became one of the leading emigrewriters. He published many works in exile, including his novel of love set in Russia, Anna (1929). He was also a biographer and a translator; among his biographical works were lives of Ivan Turgenev andAnton Checkov; he translated The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri into Russian.鲍里斯·康斯坦丁诺维奇·扎伊采夫（Boris Konstantinovich Zaytsev，1881年2月10日—1972年1月22日）是俄罗斯散文作家与剧作家，同时也是莫斯科文学团体"星期三（Sreda）"的成员。他曾先后就读于莫斯科帝国理工学院、圣彼得堡矿业学院以及莫斯科大学法学院，但均未完成任何一所院校的学业。1901年，他首次发表虚构类作品，多篇短篇小说刊载于期刊《新方向》（The New Direction）。1906年，他的首部短篇小说集正式出版；1912年，首部长篇小说《遥远的旅程》（A Distant Journey）问世。1921年至1922年，他担任莫斯科作家协会主席。1922年，他因健康原因获准迁居巴黎，成为当地顶尖的流亡作家之一。流亡期间，他发表了大量作品，其中包括以俄罗斯为背景的爱情长篇小说《安娜》（Anna，1929）。他同时兼具传记作者与翻译家的身份：其传记作品涵盖伊万·屠格涅夫（Ivan Turgenev）与安东·契诃夫（Anton Checkov）的生平；他还将但丁·阿利吉耶里（Dante Alighieri）的《神曲》（The Divine Comedy）译为俄语。