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Platon Kerzhentsev | |
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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 4 August 1881 Moscow, Russian Empire |
| Died | 2 June 1940 (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 |
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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]
- ^ Biography, hrono.ru. Accessed 18 November 2022. (in Russian)
- ^ Casey, Maurice J. "'Red Easter,' Platon Mikailovich Kerzhentsev, the First Soviet Historian of Ireland".