Lev Karakhan Lev Karakhan Lev Mikhailovich Karakhan ("Karakhanian") Armenian Կարախանյան Լեւոն Միքայելի, Russian Лев Михайлович Карахан (20 January 1889, Tiflis – 20 September 1937, Moscow) was an ethnic Armenian-born Russian revolutionary and a Soviet diplomat. A member of the RSDLP from 1904. At first a Menshevik, he joined the Bolsheviks in May 1917. In October 1917, he was member of the Revolutionary Military Council; then served as secretary of the Soviet delegation at the Brest-Litovsk peace talks together with Leon Trotsky and Adolph Joffe. In 1918-1920 and 1927–1934, he was the Deputy People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs. In 1919, he issued a
Lev Kobylinsky Lev Kobylinsky Lev Lvovich Kobylinsky (; born on 2 August 1879, Moscow, Russian Empire - 17 November 1947, Locarno, Switzerland) was a poet, translator, theorist of symbolism, the Christian philosopher and historian of literature. His pseudonym was Ellis. Lev Kobylinsky was born in Moscow. He was an illegitimate son of the director of private gymnasium Lev Polivanoff. In 1902 he graduated from the law faculty of Moscow University. Together with Andrei Bely organized poetic circle of " Argonauts ". In the years 1904–1909 an active member of the magazine "Libra". In the years 1910–1917, along with Andrew White and Emily