Ilya Erenburg

Ilya Grigoryevich Ehrenburg (14 (27) January 1891, Kiev — 31 August 1967, Moscow) was a Russian Soviet writer, poet, translator from French and Spanish, publicist, photographer, and public figure. Vice-president of the World Peace Council since 1950. Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR since 1950. Laureate of two first-degree Stalin Prizes (1942, 1948). Laureate of the International Stalin Prize “For Strengthening Peace Among Nations” (1952). First wife (1910–1913) — translator Katerina (Ekaterina) Ottovna Schmidt (1889–1977, Sorokina by her second marriage). Their daughter — translator of French literature Irina Ilyinichna Ehrenburg (1911–1997), was married to writer Boris Matveyevich Lapin (1905–1941). Second wife (from 1919) — artist Lyubov Mikhailovna Kozintseva (1899–1970), daughter of doctor of medicine Moisey Isaakovich Kozintsev, sister of film director Grigory Mikhailovich Kozintsev. She was I. G. Ehrenburg’s first cousin once removed. Cousin — artist and journalist, participant in the Civil War Ilya Lazarevich Ehrenburg (1887–1920), son of Kharkov grain merchant Lazar Gershovich (Grigoryevich) Ehrenburg, a chemist and graduate of Kharkov University (1882); the spouses Ehrenburg were friends with his cousin and his wife Maria Mikhailovna during their first emigration to Paris. Cousin — collector, artist, and teacher Natalya Lazarevna Ehrenburg (née Ehrenburg-Mannati, French: Nathalie Ehrenbourg-Mannati; 1884–1979). Cousin and cousin (on his mother’s side) — doctors Rachel Grigoryevna Lurie and Alexander Grigoryevich Lurie. Cousin — Lidiya Yevgenyevna Fridman (née Sklovskaya, 1898–1965), wife of Professor E. I. Fridman. Paternal cousin — Maria Alexandrovna Rumer (née Gurevich, 1888–1981), Candidate