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Isaac Nachman Steinberg (Russian: Исаак Нахман Штейнберг; 13 July 1888 – 2 January 1957) was a lawyer, Socialist Revolutionary, politician, a leader of the Jewish Territorialist movement and writer in ...
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Naoum Aronson (1872–1943) was a sculptor who lived for most of his life in Paris. He is known principally for his busts of important leaders, including Ludwig van Beethoven, Louis Pasteur, Leo Tolstoy ...
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Eduard Michael Johann Maria Baron von der Ropp (1851–1939) was a German-Polish nobleman and Russian Roman Catholic metropolitan archbishop. He was born 14 December 1851 near Līksna in present-day Latvia ...
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Isaak Illich Rubin (Russian: Исаа́к Ильи́ч Ру́бин; 12 June 1886, in Dvinsk, Russian Empire (now Latvia) – 27 November 1937, in Aktyubinsk, Kazakh SSR) was a Soviet Marxian economist. His main work Essays ...
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Nikolay Onufriyevich Lossky (6 December [O.S. 24 November] 1870 – 24 January 1965), also known as N. O. Lossky, was a Russian philosopher, representative of Russian idealism, intuitionist epis ...
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Mark Daniel (January 4, 1900 — November 25, 1940; birth name: Daniel-Mordkhe Meyerovich, later Mark Meyerovich) was a Jewish Soviet writer and playwright. In Yiddish he signed himself as M.Daniel ...
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Ruvins Vitenbergs (1868 — 1931) was a Latvian merchant and politician of a Jewish descent. He was a deputy of first and second Saeima, and served in Daugavpils city council. He had never spoken from the ...
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Khaim Tevelevich Eidus (also Eidous, Russian: Хаим Тевелевич Эйдус; September 6, 1926 – January 5, 1972) was a Soviet politician, orientalist, and Japanologist known for many influential publication on ...
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Heinrich Kleofasovich Dymsha (1856 Rushoni Kapinsky volost Vitebsk Governorate – September 1918) was a Polish landowner and deputy of the State Duma of the II convocation from Vitebsk Governorate.
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Leonīds Janis Vedējs (October 12, 1908 – February 4, 1995) was a Latvian ice hockey defenceman. He played with the Latvia men's national ice hockey team at the 1936 Winter Olympics held in Garmisch-Pa ...
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Raphael Abramovitch Rein (1880–1963), best known as Raphael Abramovitch, was a Russian socialist, a member of the General Jewish Workers' Union in Lithuania, Poland and Russia (Bund), and a leader of the ...
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Julijans Vaivods (18 August 1895 in Vārkava, Latgale, Vitebsk Governorate – 24 May 1990 in Riga, Soviet Union) was the Apostolic Administrator of Riga and of Liepāja from 10 November 1964 to his death ...
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Konstanty Romuald Budkiewicz (Latvian: Konstantīns Romualds Budkēvičs, Russian: Константин Ромуальд Будкевич) (June 19, 1867 - March 31, 1923) was a Roman Catholic priest executed by the OGPU for organizing ...
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Władysław Gizbert-Studnicki, a Polish politician and publicist, was born on 15 November 1867 in Dünaburg, Vitebsk Governorate, Russian Empire (current Latvia), into a Polish szlachta family of the Kresy ...
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Jean Alexander Heinrich Clapier de Colongue (Russian: Ivan Petrovich de Collong; Иван Петрович де-Колонг; Latvian: Johans Aleksandrs Heinrihs Klapje de Kolongs) (2 March [O.S. 22 February] 1838–26 ...
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Donatas Malinauskas (pronunciation ; 1877 in Krāslava, Latvia – November 30, 1942 in Altai Krai, Russia) was a Lithuanian politician and diplomat, and one of twenty signatories to the Act of Independence ...
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Stanisław Swianiewicz (7 November 1899 – 22 May 1997) was a Polish economist and historian. A veteran of the Polish-Bolshevik War, during World War II he was a survivor of the Katyn Massacre and an ey ...