Background
Boris Konstantinovich Zaitsev was born on January 29, 1881 Oryol, Russian Federation.
essayist novelist translator memoirist
Boris Konstantinovich Zaitsev was born on January 29, 1881 Oryol, Russian Federation.
Zaytsev 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.
Boris Zaitsev was engaged in literary activity since the beginning of the XX century. He first began publishing his fictional works in 1901, and several of his stories were published in the journal The New Direction ran by Dmitry Merezhkovsky and Zinaida Gippius. His first collection of stories was published in 1906. His first novel, A Distant Journey, appeared in 1912.
In the end of December 1914- beginning of January 1915 he was in Voronezh, where he worked on the translation of memories of Giacomo Casanova. There Boris Konstantinovich lived in the house of N. Klochkov (Ostrogozhskaya street, now it is House 26 on Pushkinskaya street). His impressions of the trip to Voronezh were reflected in the story "Useless Voronezh" (1938; reprinted by V. V. Boykov, Young Kommunar newspaper, 1990, June 23).
In 1922 he went abroad and since 1924 lived in Paris.