Shaul Tchernichovsky (1875 - 1943 / Russia)

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Shaul Tchernichovsky was born in Mikhailovka, Russia, in 1875. He grew up in a religious home and attended a modern Hebrew school, before joining a Russian school at the age of ten. When he was fourteen he went to Odessa to continue his education. He specialised in the study of languages (German, French, English, Greek and Latin) - a skill that would later enable him to translate extensively. He failed to gain admission to a Russian university and so went to Heidelberg to study medicine. On completion of his degree he settled in St. Petersburg.

During the First World War, he served as an army doctor. Following
the Bolshevik Revolution Tchernichovsky's economic situation ... more »

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