Nathan Schneersohn

Nathan Schneersohn
Натан Шнеерсон
Anatoly Schneerson with his daughter Alexandra, 1912
Born
Анатолий Абрамович Шнеерсон

(1881-03-18)18 March 1881
Died9 October 1937(1937-10-09) (aged 56)
Political partyRussian Social Democratic Labour Party, Mensheviks
MovementSocialism, Marxism

Nathan Aleksandrovich (Anatoly Abramovich) Schneersohn (also known under the alias Yeryoma, 18 March [O.S. 6 March] 1881, Yekaterinoslav, Yekaterinoslav Governorate, Russian Empire – 9 October 1937, Moscow, RSFSR, USSR) – a Russian Menshevik revolutionary and Soviet museum curator, the founder and first director (1920–1937) of the New Jerusalem State Museum of History and Art, located near Moscow in the monastery of the same name. He was also the addressee of the text by Vladimir Lenin published as a separate brochure in Geneva in 1904 under the title "Letter to a Comrade on Our Organizational Tasks".