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That liberty is a great thing we may know from our own feelings, and we may likewise judge so from the conduct of the white-people, in the late war.
Andrei Platonov
![Andrei Platonov](/apics/andrei-platonov.jpg)
Born: August 28, 1899
Died: January 5, 1951 (aged 51)
Bio: Andrei Platonov was the pen name of Andrei Platonovich Klimentov, a Soviet Russian writer, playwright, and poet, whose works anticipate existentialism.
Known for:
- The Foundation Pit
- Chevengur
- Happy Moscow
- The Fierce and Beautiful World
- The Return and Other Stories