Grigory Usievich and Elena (Helena) Cohn

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Husband Grigory Usievich

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Wife Elena (Helena) Cohn

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           Born: Feb 20, 1893 - Yakutsk, Siberia
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           Died: Jan 15, 1968 - Moscow, Soviet Union
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         Father: Feliks Cohn
         Mother: Kristina Grynberg

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Children

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1 M (Son) Usievich

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2 F Marisha Usievich

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General Notes: Wife - Elena (Helena) Cohn

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Communist revolutioinary and literary critic. Born in Yakutsk, Siberi a. She was married to Grigory Usievich, a Russian communist revolutio nary whom she met in Switzerland. They both entered Russia in April o f 1917 in th efamous "sealed train" with Lenin and other revolutionari es. They took part in the October Revolution and the Civil War betwee n the Reds and the Whites. Grigory died in the Civil War in 1918 an d was considered a revolutionary hero. Elena worked as an interrogato r for the Cheka, (the first secret police organization in the Soviet U nion and forerunner of the NKVD and KGB). During World War II she col laborated on a literary journal with the Polish communist author Wand a Wasilewska, whose novels she translated into Russian. Elena was th e author of several books, numerous articles, and was a major literar y critic in the Soviet Union. Her books include: Pisateli i deistvit elnost (1936), Vladimir Mayakovsky (1950) and Paths of Aritistic Trut h (1958).

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4. JRI-Poland Shtetl CO-OP Volunteers, comp, Poland, Jewish Records Indexing-Poland, Marriages, 1798-1939 (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 200 8;). Specific source information is provided with each record. This JRI-Pol and data is provided in partnership with JewishGen.org. JRI-Poland is an independent orga nization and its database is hosted by JewishGen.