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WHO WAS PETER PLOTKIN?
- BORN OF HUMBLE PARENTS IN PETROGRAD, RUSSIA IN 1879.
- ORPHANED AT AGE SEVEN…FATHER, MOTHER AND SISTER KILLED IN A PETROGRAD POGROM.
- ADOPTED BY A RUSSIAN ARISTOCRAT WHO ENABLED HIM TO OBTAIN AN EXTRAORDINARY EDUCATION IN FINE ARTS, LITERATURE, AND DRAMATICS, INCLUDING SEMINARS IN PHILOSOPHY WITH COUNT LEO TOLSTOY.
- EMIGRATED TO THE UNITED STATES EARLY IN THE SECOND DECADE OF THIS CENTURY…BECAME AN U.S. CITIZEN IN 1923 WITH A CONTINUING PASSION FOR A FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY.
- HIS DISTINGUISHED CAREERS IN FINE AND DRAMATICS ARTS INCLUDE A PROFESSORSHIP AT SIMMONS UNIVERSITY (NOW HARDIN-SIMMONS) IN ABILENE, TEXAS IN THE LATE 1920'S.
- HE RESIDED PRIMARILY IN TEXAS UNTIL 1931 AND IN CALIFORNIA UNTIL HIS DEATH ON JANUARY 1, 1960.