andrei platonov, that... he studied at commercial educational institutions three times, yes, at first in nikolaevskyial institute, a school, a school, a comitell school, of course, yes, named. how did this happen to babel, after all, did one contradict the other or not, what influenced him? i don't think it contradicts if we talk, for example, about a commercial school, let me remind you that alexey remizov also graduated from the moscow commercial school, but probably in that period, that is, not, probably, for sure, in that period there was no professional education for writers, yes, this arose here later, yes. and well , it seems to me that this is how he wrote babel, indeed, he himself, he, he thought of himself as a writer, probably first from childhood, by the way, he also studied at the law faculty of the psychoneurological institute in petrograd, but did not graduate, and babel he, well me i don’t know, maybe his family prepared him for this, right? he read a lot, as for the odessa commercial school, it gave a very good general education, it was at the odessa commercial school that babel tau