from leningrad to moscow, for this he went on a journey through the same villages and cities as rodishchik. unfortunately, the novel was written, but the manuscript was later lost. in letters to his wife, he talks about working on the book and, most importantly, about that occupied him all his life. he loved and pitied people. and he wrote to his wife, marya alexandrovna: "people live very poorly, and i try to help them, i give one a ruble, two to another, five to another. but somehow they all return their debt to me. maybe it is because i love them and feed my soul from them, it seems to me that this is some kind of important symbolic moment in platonov's character and in his work, he was very interested in people, he loved them, and this soul of his, which he fed from these people, he then reflected this on its pages, and we already feed our souls, as it seems to me, reading his works. serves as a correspondent for the newspaper krasnaya zvezda. according to the recollections of acquaintances, he lived in dugouts, studying the soldier's life, wrote down their stories, and, if necessary,