Editing Yevgeny Zamyatin (section)

==Life as a naval engineer==
In 1913, Zamyatin was granted an [[amnesty]] as part of the celebrations for 300-years of rule by the [[House of Romanov]] and granted the right to return to St. Petersburg.<ref name="auto">''A Soviet Heretic'', p. 13.</ref> His ''A Provincial Tale'', which satirized life in a small Russian town, was immediately published and brought him a degree of fame. The next year he was tried and acquitted for defaming the [[Imperial Russian Army]] in his story ''Na Kulichkakh'' (''At the World's End'').<ref name="hesperuspress"/> He continued to contribute articles to Marxist newspapers. After graduating as an [[engineer]] for the [[Imperial Russian Navy]], Zamyatin worked professionally at home and abroad.

===Sojourn in England===
In March 1916, he was sent to the [[United Kingdom]] to supervise the construction of [[icebreaker]]s at the shipyards of [[Armstrong Whitworth]] in [[Walker, Newcastle upon Tyne|Walker]] and [[Swan Hunter]] in [[Wallsend]] while living in [[Newcastle upon Tyne]]. He supervised the building of the ''[[Krassin (1916 icebreaker)|Krassin]]'', which retained the distinction of being the most powerful icebreaker in the world into the 1950s. He also worked on the ''[[Lenin (1916 icebreaker)|Lenin]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://rbth.com/literature/2014/09/19/the_russian_writer_who_inspired_orwell_and_huxley_39935.html|title=Yevgeny Zamyatin: The Russian writer who inspired Orwell and Huxley|website=rbth.com|date=19 September 2014 }}</ref>

Zamyatin later wrote, "My only previous visit to the West had been to Germany. [[Berlin]] had impressed me as a condensed, 80-percent version of Petersburg. In England it was quite different: everything was as new and strange as [[Alexandria]] and [[Jerusalem]] had been some years before."<ref name="auto"/>

[[File:Yevgeny-zamyatin.jpg|thumb|Yevgeny Zamyatin.]]
Zamyatin later recalled, "In England, I built ships, looked at ruined castles, listened to the thud of [[German strategic bombing during World War I|bombs dropped]] by German [[Zeppelin]]s, and wrote ''The Islanders''. I regret that I did not see the [[February Revolution]], and know only the [[October Revolution]] (I returned to Petersburg, past German [[U-boat Campaign|submarines]], in a ship with lights out, wearing a [[Personal flotation device|life belt]] the whole time, just in time for October). This is the same as never having been in love and waking up one morning already married for ten years or so."<ref>''A Soviet Heretic'', p. 4.</ref>