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Elena V. Antonova
Elena V. Antonova, PhD in Philology, Senior Researcher, А.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Povarskaya 25 a, 121069 Moscow, Russia.
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Abstract: The article aims to clarify the biography of the railway workers order bearers E.G. Zeitlin and I.A. Fedorov — the prototypes of the protagonists in A. Platonov’s stories “Immortality” and “Among Animals and Plants.” The article also discusses some preparation aspects of the literary collection “People of the Railway Power,” for which these stories were intended. The appendix contains newspaper and archival materials clarifying the realities reflected in mentioned Platonov’s stories.