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Platon Grigorievich Volkov was born in 1799. He was the son of the landowner of the Volograd province.
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Platon Grigorievich Volkov
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In 1813, Platon Grigorievich worked as a clerk. In 1816 the Praporshchik, in 1819 the Praporshchik of the Nizhny Novgorod Infantry Regiment. Since 1822, the second lieutenant retired. In 1829-1830, the clerk of the Ministry of Finance, from 1831 retired.
Platon Grigorievich printed poems in Well-intentioned (1823), Northern Mercury. In 1828 he published in a separate edition the first chapter, News in Poetry, Recognition in the Thirtieth Year of Life, an experience of lyrical writing, narration in the style of A. Eugene Onegin by A. Pushkin. In 1831 Platon Grigorievich published in Saint Petersburg the Journal of Foreign Literature and Fine Arts and Echo.
In 1831 Platon Grigorievich left Petersburg; according to rumors, he fled to his homeland or abroad, taking money from those who sold books. In the 1830s Platon Grigorievich was an assistant to O.I. Senkovsky on publishing the magazine, although he was engaged only in the technical part.
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1850 (aged 51) -
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Russian Empire
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1813
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1819
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1829 - 1830