Short answers, pulled from the story.
Yevgeny Zamyatin was born in Lebedyan, south of Moscow, to a Russian Orthodox priest father and a musician mother. His childhood was marked by loneliness as he spent hours reading books or listening to Chopin under the piano while his mother played.
In December 1905, Yevgeny Zamyatin hid a paper bag filled with explosive pyroxylin in his flat before being arrested by the Okhrana along with thirty other Bolsheviks. He endured beating and solitary confinement but managed to smuggle out instructions for comrades to remove compromising items from their rooms.
Between 1920 and 1921, Yevgeny Zamyatin wrote the novel We set many centuries in the future about a society run by logic where people are numbered instead of named. The manuscript was smuggled to New York City in 1923 and published in English in 1924 after translation by Gregory Zilboorg.
Yevgeny Zamyatin left the Soviet Union in November 1931 because he could not remain in an organization that persecuted its members and felt his position as a writer amounted to a death sentence. He had appealed directly to Joseph Stalin in 1931 and asked Maxim Gorky to intercede on his behalf before choosing exile.
Yevgeny Zamyatin died in poverty of a heart attack on the 10th of March 1937 while living in Paris with his wife. His unfinished final novel called The Scourge of God featured Attila as the main character and included a screenplay for Jean Renoir's The Lower Depths from 1936.