Platon Kerzhentsev

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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
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 (1881-08-04)4 August 1881 Moscow, Russian Empire
Died	2 June 1940(1940-06-02) (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]