Lev Kamenev Lev Kamenev Lev Borisovich Kamenev (born Leo Rosenfeld or Lev Borisovich Rozenfeld; – 25 August 1936) was a Bolshevik revolutionary and a prominent Soviet politician. He was one of the seven members of the first Politburo, founded in 1917 to manage the Bolshevik Revolution: Lenin, Zinoviev, Kamenev, Trotsky, Stalin, Sokolnikov and Bubnov. Kamenev was the brother-in-law of Leon Trotsky. He served briefly as the equivalent of the first head of state of Soviet Russia in 1917, and from 1923-24 as acting Premier in the last year of Vladimir Lenin's life. Joseph Stalin viewed him as a source of discontent and
Lev Knyazev Lev Knyazev Lev Knyazev () is a Russian writer best known for his novels describing lives of seamen of Vladivostok, the biggest Russian seaport on the Pacific coast. His most famous novel “Morskoi Protest’ (Sea Protest) was sold 2 million copies in just one year. Though his creative heritage is primarily in prose, he is considered one of the brightest artists of the Perestroika times, the signer of beautiful people who kept their souls pure in the most challenging times. Lev (in Russian it also means a “lion”) was born in the family of two teachers from central Russia, one