Olga Kameneva Olga Kameneva Olga Davidovna Kameneva (, ; 1883 – 11 September 1941) (née Bronstein — Бронштейн) was a Russian Bolshevik revolutionary and a Soviet politician. She was the sister of Leon Trotsky and the first wife of Lev Kamenev. Olga Bronstein was born in Yanovka, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire (present-day Kirovohrad Oblast, Ukraine), a small village 15 miles from the nearest post office. She was one of two daughters of a wealthy but illiterate farmer, David Leontyevich Bronstein (or Bronshtein, 1847–1922), a Jewish colonist, and Anna Lvovna (née Zhivotovskaya) (1850–1910). Although the family was of Jewish extraction, they were not
Lev Shestov extreme human behavior probably coloured Bataille's own thoughts. These are Shestov's most important works, in their English translations, and with their date of "writing": Lev Shestov Lev Isaakovich Shestov (, 1866 – 1938), born Yeguda Leib Shvartsman (), was a Russian existentialist philosopher, known for his "philosophy of despair". Born in Kyiv (Russian Empire) on , he emigrated to France in 1921, fleeing from the aftermath of the October Revolution. He lived in Paris until his death on November 19, 1938. Shestov was born Lev Isaakovich Schwarzmann in Kiev into a Jewish family. He obtained an education at various places,