Andrei Platonov

Andrei Platonov, whose real name was Klimentov, was born on 28 August 1899 in the Yamskaya Sloboda, a suburb of Voronezh, the son of a worker in the railway workshops. He worked from adolescence, studied electrical engineering after the revolution, then was an engineer, occupied with irrigation and electrification after the famine of 1921. Settled in Moscow in 1927, he considered himself a communist, but his principal works, sceptical of Stalinist policy and of a very free form, remained banned for decades. He died in Moscow on 5 January 1951.

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