their drought-stricken land. ★ VORONEZH. Andrei Platonov (the name he began to write under only in 1920, but by which he is best known) was born on 20 August (1 September) 1899 in the settlement of Iamskaia on the outskirts of Voronezh in the central black earth region. Set in 1921, it follows a young engineer, ‘haunted by the task of the struggle against ruin’, who is summoned to a remote village by a rather poetic communiqué from the secretary of the village soviet. In early 1990s, the Lenin’s formula was turned upside down again. 7th Platonov Art Festival Opened with World Premiere in Voronezh : The Motherland of Electricity – the first ever opera based on short stories by Andrei Platonov premiered in Voronezh yesterday. Platonov's first book, Electrification (Eletrifikatsiya) was published in 1921. None was published in Platonov's lifetime except 'For Future Use' (1931) - a story heavily criticized by Stalin as a … Yet he avoided prosecution – almost a miracle in the 1930s – despite what is seen as his political … Their journeys are accompanied by two motives which characterize the writing of Andrey Platonov: optimism and faith in the goodness of humanity, and abject despair at the cruelty, randomness, and apparent senselessness of our existence. --03-06-2017-- His father was a metal fitter (and an amateur inventor) employed in the railroad workshops. The above are just a few examples. Like Platonov’s masterpiece, The Foundation Pit, this short novel mentions an unmentionable fact about the massive modernization programs of the 1920s-30s: they were accompanied by a great deal of human suffering. Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and other First Nations people are advised that this catalogue contains names, recordings and images of deceased people and other content that may be culturally sensitive. Andrei Platonov 1899–-1951 (Pseudonym of Andrei Klimentov; also transliterated Andrey, Andrej) Russian novelist, short story writer, poet, dramatist, folklorist, essayist, and critic. In it, he preaches about the revolutionary power of electricity, which will profoundly change human nature. 7th Platonov Art Festival Opened with World Premiere in Voronezh : The Motherland of Electricity – the first ever opera based on short stories by Andrei Platonov premiered in Voronezh yesterday. The Motherland of Electricity, filmed in … Platonov, a hydrological expert in his native Voronezh region during the droughts of the early 1920s, had an altogether different conception, combining faith in technology with knowledge of the harshness of the environment on which mankind depended. However, the Soviet censorship banned the film, seeing in it a mockery of the political system and religious propaganda. Happy Moscow tells the story of Moscow (or Moskva) Ivanovna Chestnova, an orphan trying to make her way through life. A book of poetry, Deep Blue … Platonov's answer was typically independent: "None. In his autobiographical story 'The Motherland of Electricity' (1939), published in Soul, he reounts one such episode. Andrei Platonov (1899-1951) spawned many an incongruous image and incomprehensible sentence in his time. Controversy exists about the actual date of birth, however, and some experts fix it at 28 August (16 August, Old Style). The History of the Text and Andrey Platonov’s Biography (1992) Research interests: history of twentieth century Russian literature, textology and source studies. I have my own." Professional service. Platonov (Russian: Платонов, also known as Fatherlessness and A Play Without a Title) is the name in English given to an early, untitled play in four acts written by Anton Chekhov in 1878. Platonov's father was a train engineer, metal worker, and a self-taught inventor. The land is parched, the peasants are starving. Robert and Elizabeth Chandler with Angela Livingstone, Olga Meerson, and Eric Naiman. The date of the first story in this collection, “The Motherland of Electricity”, is not certain, but it is certainly in the spirit of the first Five Year Plan, with Platonov himself as a young electrician setting out to walk for three days down the cart-tracks to Verchovka, where the village soviet has appealed for emergency repairs.