2 Quotes & Sayings By Leonid Andreyev
Born in 1908 in Odessa, Andreyev spent his childhood in the family home in the city of Nikolayev. At the age of 14 he started to attend a private boarding school. In 1926 he moved to Odessa to study at the department of mathematics and physics at the university. In 1934 he graduated from the university with honors, and was accepted into an engineering graduate school at Petrograd University
Unfortunately after a year's course of studies Andreyev had to leave the university due to a serious illness. In 1935 he started to work as a research assistant at the Medical Physics Institute in Petrograd, which was then part of Leningrad. In 1936 he became a member of the Communist Party of Soviet Union and was immediately drafted into the army. In 1937 Andreyev married his first wife, Elena Nikolaeva (née Zaitseva), with whom he had a daughter, Olga.
After being discharged from military service, Andreyev continued his studies at the Physics Institute in Leningrad while working as a research assistant at a local factory named "Zarya". He also worked as a journalist for a local newspaper, "Sankt Peterburgskiy Komsomolets". In 1939 Andreyev graduated from this institute with honors and began working as an engineer at the Electrical Power Station No.
3 in Leningrad. In 1939–1940 Andreyev published several articles on physical problems connected with high-voltage technology in journals such as "Vesti nauchno-issledovatel'nykh proizvodstvennykh oboronnykh elektrostantsiy i elektronno-elektromechanicheskih proizvodstvennykh apparatov" (Information Bulletin for Scientific Research Production Engineering and Electrical Machine Industries Apparatus), "Electroenergetika i elektronnoe proizvodstvo (Electroenergetics and Electronic Production)". At that time two books by Hill were published: Think and Grow Rich (1937) and The Law of Success (1928). Both books contained information about human psychology that was very much in line with Andreyev's own experiences and thoughts about success, success being defined by achievement through hard work, persistence in work, ability to properly plan ahead for one's future growth, etc. Furthermore both books contained information about success principles that were in