wine. After a while, he rebelled, poured himself a glass of wine, then another and another, and became the old Gorky. The storm ended, and I walked out onto the large stone terrace. Gorky followed me immediately and said to me, 'The affair of your passport is settled. But if you wish, you can return the passport and stay.' I said I would go. Gorky frowned and went back to the other guests in the dining room. It was late. Some of the guests remained overnight; others, including myself, were returning to Moscow. In parting, Gorky said, 'When shall we meet again? If not in Moscow, then perhaps in Italy? If I go there, you must come to see me! In any case, until we meet again, eh?' This was the last time I saw Gorky." Zamyatin left the Soviet union in November 1931. Life in exile After their emigration, Zamyatin and his wife settled in Paris. According to Mirra Ginsburg: "Zamyatin's last years in Paris were years of great material hardship and loneliness. As Remizov wrote, 'He came with sealed lips and a sealed heart.' He found little in common with most of the emigrés who had left Russia a decade earlier." The screenplay for Jean Renoir's The Lower Depths (1936) from Maxim Gorky's stage play was co-written by Zamyatin. Zamyatin later wrote: "Gorky was informed of this, and wrote that he was pleased at my participation in the project, that he would like to see the adaptation of his play, and would wait to receive the manuscript. The manuscript was never sent: by the time it was ready for mailing, Gorky was dead." According to Mirra Ginsburg, after the film premiered: "He wrote some articles for French magazines and worked on a novel, The Scourge of God. Its central character was Attila, whose epoch, he felt, paralleled our own. The novel was never finished." Death and burial Yevgeny Zamyatin died in poverty of a heart attack on March 10, 1937. Only a small group of friends were present for his burial at the Cimetière de Thiais, in the Parisian suburb of the same name. One of the mourners, however, was Zamyatin's Russian language publisher Marc Lvovich Slonim, who had befriended the Zamyatins after their arrival in the West. Mirra Ginsburg later wrote of Zamyatin: "His death went unreported in the Soviet press." Legacy Writing in 1967, Mirra Ginsburg