Andrei Platonov Artiste . Andrei arlovski, belarusian mixed martial artist Andrei platonov (the name he began to write under only in 1920, but by which he is best known) was born in the settlement of yamskaia sloboda on the outskirts of voronezh in the central black earth region. Andréi Platónov, genio desconocido de la literatura del from es.rbth.com Thu 18 feb 2010 06.08 est. At the time he was also working on his (unfinished) novel happy moscow, in which the protagonists act out a plot against the backdrop of a city constantly being demolished and constructed anew. Although platonov was a communist, his works were banned in his own lifetime for their skeptical attitude toward collectivization and other stalinist.