A group photo taken at M.O Gershenzon's wake in 1925

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Group photo of wake of Mikhail Osipovich Gershenzon -- noted Russian Silver Age Pushkin scholar and Jewish-Russian philosopher -- at RAKhN/GAKhN (RAKhN: Rossiiskaia Akademiia khudozhestvennykh nauk ~ Translation: Russian Academy of Artistic Sciences [the name until 1925]/GAKhn: Gosudarstvennaia akademiia khudozhestvennykh nauk ~ Translation: The State Academy of Arts [the name after 1925]) -- Mikhail Osipovich Gershenzon was a professor in the 1920s until his death in 1925. Gershenzon is shown in the open casket with eight mourners around the casket. Second from the left: Olga Aleksandrovna Shor, next to her is Gustav Gustavovich Shpet. In the center is Pyotr Semyonovich Kogan, the president of the academy. Moscow, Prechistenka Street, #32.

1925

Gershenzon, M. O. (Mikhail Osipovich), 1869-1925
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