Soviet politician, diplomat and theatre and art critic
In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Mikhailovich and the family name is Kerzhentsev.
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Platon Kerzhentsev
Платон Керженцев
Portrait, 1935
Administrator of Affairs of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union
In office 29 December 1930 – 23 March 1933
Premier
Vyacheslav Molotov
Preceded by
Nikolai Gorbunov
Succeeded by
Ivan Miroshnikov
Chairman of the Committee on Arts Affairs under the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union
In office 17 January 1936 – 15 January 1938
Premier
Vyacheslav Molotov
Preceded by
Office established
Succeeded by
Alexey Nazarov
Personal details
Born
Platon Mikhailovich Lebedev
(1881-08-04)4 August 1881 Moscow, Russian Empire
Died
2 June 1940(1940-06-02) (aged 58) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Citizenship
Soviet
Nationality
Russian
Political party
Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks) (1904–1918) All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (1918–1937)
Profession
Literary and theatre critic, historian, art theorist
Platon Mikhailovich Kerzhentsev (Russian: Плато́н Миха́йлович Ке́рженцев), (real name Lebedev (Ле́бедев), pseudonym V. Kerzhentsev; 4 August 1881 – 2 June 1940)[1] was a Soviet state and party official, revolutionary, diplomat, journalist, historian, playwright and theatre and arts theorist who was involved with the Proletkult movement.
From 29 December 1930 until 23 March 1933, he served as Administrator of Affairs of the Council of People's Commissars, and was the second person to fill that post.
He was the first Soviet historian of Ireland and was considered the leading expert on Ireland in the Soviet Union.[2]
^Biography, hrono.ru. Accessed 18 November 2022. (in Russian)
^Casey, Maurice J. "'Red Easter,' Platon Mikailovich Kerzhentsev, the First Soviet Historian of Ireland".
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