Dmitrii Zorin

Zorin, Dmitrii Ivanovich 

Born Aug. 5 (18), 1905, in the village of Kuz’menovskaia, in what is now Kinel’-Cherkassy Raion, Kuibyshev Oblast; died Nov. 25, 1967, in Moscow. Soviet Russian writer. Educated as a lawyer.

Zorin was first published in 1927. His first long work was the novel The Turning Point (1931), describing the class struggle in a village beyond the Urals. His plays The Eternal Source (1957) and Spring Thunder (1961) constitute a two-part work devoted to the life of peasants in the Soviet period., In the first play, Zorin created a portrayal of V. I. Lenin that was evaluated by the critics as an important dramatic achievement. Zorin also wrote the plays The Return to Taras (1948), The Portrait of a Girl (1960), short stories, and essays. In 1966 he published the historical novel The Russian Land, whose theme is the revolution.

WORKS

Vechnyi istochnik. Vesennii grom. Moscow, 1962.

REFERENCES

Karaganov, A. “Velikaia tema, velikii obraz.” Teatr, 1958, no. 4.
Zubkov, Iu. “Vesennii grom” (review). Teatr, 1962, no. 1.
Ocherki istorii russkogo sovetskogo dramaticheskogo teatra, vol. 3. Moscow, 1961.