Itzik Feffer

Itzik Feffer

male, deceased (1952)
Itzik Feffer was a Soviet Yiddish poet who fell victim to Stalin's purges. Itzik Feffer was born in Shpola, a town in Zvenigorod "uyezd" (district)...
Gayk Bzhishkyan

Gayk Bzhishkyan

male, deceased (1937)
Gayk Bzhishkyan - Hayk Bzhishkyan (–December 11, 1937) was a Soviet military commander of the Russian Civil War and Polish-Soviet War. (Russian: Га...

Józef Andrzej Załuski

male, deceased (1774)
Józef Andrzej Załuski was a Polish Catholic priest, Bishop of Kiev, sponsor of science and culture, and known bibliophile. A member of Polish no...

Osip Mikhailovich Lerner

male
Osip Mikhailovich Lerner was a 19th century Russian Jewish intellectual and lawyer. Originally a "maskil"-a propagator of the "Haskala", or "Jewish...
Otto Schmidt

Otto Schmidt

male, deceased (1956)
Otto Yulievich Schmidt ((September 7, 1956) was a Soviet scientist, mathematician, astronomer, geophysicist, statesman, academician (Corresponding...
Gamzat-Bek

Gamzat-Bek

male, deceased (1834)
Gamzat-bek (1789 — October 1(September 19), 1834) was the second imam of Dagestan, who succeeded Ghazi Mollah upon his death in 1832. Gamzat-bek wa...

N. M. Sheikevitch

male
N.M. Sheikevitch was a Yiddish novelist and, beginning around 1880, a playwright in Yiddish theater in Odessa, Ukraine. Jacob Adler wrote of his...
David Pinski

David Pinski

male, deceased (1959)
David Pinski (1872-1959) was a Yiddish language writer, probably best known as a playwright. At a time when Eastern Europe was only beginning to...
Dmitry Bogrov

Dmitry Bogrov

male, deceased (1911)
Dmitry Grigoriyevich Bogrov was the assassin of the Russian Prime Minister Pyotr Stolypin. Born Mordekhai Gershkovich Bogrov ("Мордехай Гершкови...

Stanisław Wojciechowski

male, deceased (1953)
Stanislaw Wojciechowski was born on March 15, 1869 in Kalisz, and died near Warsaw on April 9, 1953. He was born into a family of Polish nobility,...