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Leonid Andreyev (1871–1919)
Andreyev, Leonid (än-drā’ef). A Russian author; born at Orel, Russia, Aug. 9, 1871; died in 1919. He wrote ‘The Lie and Other Stories’ (1902), ‘The Thought and Other Stories’ (1903); ‘Red Laughter’ (1905); ‘The Governor’ (1906); ‘Judas Iscariot and the Others’ (1908); ‘Sasha Jigulev’ (1912). Among his plays, highly original in their employment of symbolism, are ‘The Life of Man’; ‘The Black Masquers’; ‘Anathema’; ‘The Sabine Women’; ‘Savva.’ (See Critical and Biographical Introduction).