Platon Kerzhentsev

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
PremierVyacheslav Molotov
Preceded byNikolai Gorbunov
Succeeded byIvan 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
PremierVyacheslav Molotov
Preceded byOffice established
Succeeded byAlexey Nazarov
Personal details
Born
Platon Mikhailovich Lebedev

(1881-08-04)4 August 1881
Moscow, Russian Empire
Died2 June 1940(1940-06-02) (aged 58)
Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
CitizenshipSoviet
NationalityRussian
Political partyRussian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks) (1904–1918)
All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (1918–1937)
ProfessionLiterary and theatre critic, historian, art theorist
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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]

  1. ^ Biography, hrono.ru. Accessed 18 November 2022. (in Russian)
  2. ^ Casey, Maurice J. "'Red Easter,' Platon Mikailovich Kerzhentsev, the First Soviet Historian of Ireland".