About the book: 2018 / Andrei Platonov (real name Andrei Platonovich Klimentov, 1899–1951) - Russian writer, playwright, poet. As a front-line correspondent, Andrei Platonov was in the Civil War. During the Great Patriotic War, he served as a military correspondent for the Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper with the rank of captain. Vast life and military experience formed the basis of the writer’s rich creative heritage. The most striking feature of A. Platonov’s prose is his original language, which has no analogues in Russian literature. About his heroes - and about his people - Platonov said: “They lived a full and common life with nature and history - and history ran in those years like a locomotive, dragging behind it the worldwide burden of poverty, despair and humble inertia.».