Léonide Andreiev

Léonid Andreiev (in) (August 9th, 1871 - September 12th, 1919) is a Journaliste and Russian writer , born with Orel, the south of Moscow.

Very early Orphan of father, it becomes lawyer to provide for the needs for its family. “Misled” by one of its customers, it stops pleading and turns to the legal chronicle (chronicler with the Muscovite Messager as from 1897).

It is consequently put to write news and plays. It is read and played, is success, then dark in the lapse of memory and dies in 1919 in Finland of the continuations of a Suicide missed a few years before. Léonide Andreiev was also photographer.

Works of Léonide Andreiev put much time to reach us; hidden very a long time in the files of the ex- Soviet Union. One owes their arrival in France with Laurent Terzieff which assembled the part “the Thought”, drawn from the news éponyme, in 1962.

Works

seven Hung (new)
the Thought (new and part)
Ekatarina Ivanovna (part)
Snow and the Night (part)
life of a Man (part)
With the Stars (part)
Destinies of a Russian writer (collection of photographs of Andreiev)

Quotation

“ the life awaits us and the life is an alarming and incomprehensible thing. It may be that its terrible and pitiless force crushes us by crushing our happiness, but even while dying I will say a thing: I saw happiness, I saw the man, I lived! ”

- Léonide Andreiev (1902)

"What good is it to have a heart, if one does not dare to throw it to fire when one wants of it? "

- Judas Iscariote

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