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 Zbarsky Lev Zbarsky Felix-Lev Borisovich Zbarsky (; 12 November 1931 – 22 February 2016) was a Russian Soviet painter. He was born in Moscow, the son of a biochemist . Biochemist Ilya Zbarsky was his brother, and he was the first husband of actress Lyudmila Maksakova. Lev Zbarsky the first son of the second marriage of Boris Ilyich Zbarsky with Evgenia Perelman. Lev was born in Moscow in November 1931. Father decided to call his son the name of the man he most respected. Since these people were two: Lev Karpov and Felix Dzerzhinsky, the son was given a double name