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 Philippovitch Wolkenstein Lev Philippovitch Wolkenstein Lev Philippovitch Wolkenstein (, 1858—20.05.1935, Paris) was a Russian jurist, lawyer and cadet. He was born as Isaak-Leib Fishelevich Wolkenstein () at 1858 presumably in Taganrog. Lev Wolkenstein was brother of who also was a Russian lawyer. Lev Wolkenstein studied at Taganrog Classical Male Gymnasium () at the same time as Anton Chekhov. When Chekhov was at seventh grade and Wolkenstein was at undergraduate eighth grade, all students at Wolkenstein's class except Wolkenstein rejected to write essay prescribed for them. This caused conflict between Wolkenstein and his classmates. One of them called Wolkenstein as "zhyd" and Wolkenstein