Georgiy Zakharovich Litvin-Molotov

Background

Georgiy Zakharovich Litvin-Molotov was born on 1898 in the village of Aksai, Don region, Russian Federation.

Education

Georgiy Zakharovich Litvin-Molotov graduated from Bobrov High School, studied at Voronezh Teaching Institute in 1915-1917, The Institute of Red Professors of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) in 1930-1934.

Career

From summer of 1918 Georgiy Zakharovich was one of the heads of provincial organization by Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviki). He was an editor of local newspapers: "Voronezh poverty", "Krasnaya Derevnya", "Voronezh Kommuna".

Georgiy Zakharovich was the first among others to estimate creative potential of Andrey Platonovich Platonov whom he supported in every possible way. Since May 1921 he worked in Krasnodar where he opened publishing house "Burevestnik", published books by Voronezh residents A.P. Platonov, V.B. Keller (Alexandrov).

Since May 1924 worked in Rostov-on-Don, a year later, he was recalled to Moscow, where he became the de facto head of the publishing house "Molodaya Gvardiya" and contributed to the publication of probe books P. Platonov. In the 1930s he held senior administrative positions in the editorial, publishing, political and educational fields. Since autumn 1938, Deputy Director for research, head of the scientific and bibliographic Department of the stare library of the USSR named after V.I. Lenin.

Later on Georgiy Zakharovich ran department of Marxism-Leninism and social-economic disciplines at Moscow Institite of foreign languages. Litvin-Molotov participated in World War II from 1941 to 1942.

In 1946 was repressed without further explanations and remained so until 1955 on compulsory treatment in psychiatric hospital of People Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Kazan, Chistopol). In 1958 and 1959 he came to Voronezh.

Connections

Friend:

Nikolay Alekseevich Zadonsky