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Tverskoy Bul'var 25
Тверской Бульвар 25
(Maxim Gorki Literature Inst. - Литературный инст. им А.М. Горького)

Алексей Платонович Платонов

Andrey Platonovich Platonov

1899 - 1951
Soviet Russian writer

F. Suchkov
1989

Moscow - Москва / Алексей Платонович Платонов

Description

Granite commemorative plaque with portrait.

Inscription(s)

здесь с 1931 года по 1951 год жил писатель
алексей платонович
ПЛАТОНОВ

Here, from 1931 to 1951, lived the writer
Andrey Platonovich
Platonov

Tverskoy Bul'var 25 - Тверской Бульвар 25

The Maxim Gorky Literature Institute - Литературный институт имени А. М. Горького
Higher education institute in Moscow, founded in 1933 on the initiative of Maxim Gorky, and received the current name at Gorky's death in 1936. The building is known as the Herzen House - Дом Герцена. In the garden is a statue of Herzen, and on the building are commemorative plaques for Platonov, Mandelstamm and Andreyev.

Sculptor

F. Suchkov - Ф. Сучков, Russian sculptor.

Sources & Information

Narod.ru, Страницы сайта поэта Иосифа Бродского (1940-1996).
Clow.ru, Монументальная летопись, file 61.

Locatie (N 55°45'44" - E 37°36'7") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

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