Vasily Vasilievich Leontiev ( January 12 [24], 1880 , Petersburg - 1966 [1] ) - Privatdocent , member of the All-Russian Constituent Assembly .
| Vasily Vasilievich Leontiev | |
|---|---|
 V.V. Leontyev (senior), his wife and son Vasily . | |
| Date of Birth | January 12 (24), 1880 |
| Place of Birth | Saint Petersburg , Russian Empire |
| Date of death | 1966 |
| Citizenship |  Russian empire  RSFSR |
| Occupation | Privat-docent , member of the All-Russian Constituent Assembly . |
| The consignment | socialist revolutionaries |
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Biography
From an Old Believer family of an honorary citizen . Together with 10 brothers, co-owner of a weaving factory in St. Petersburg ( Zhdanovskaya street ).
In 1897 he graduated from college at the church, studied at the University of Leipzig and Munich . Since 1902 he was under police surveillance. Member of the Socialist Revolutionary Party . In 1904, revolutionary literature was discovered during the arrest, released on bail. He was sent abroad.
He married Zlata Bentsionovna Becker (1881-1979) [2] [3] , her father was a wealthy Odessa merchant Bentsion-Anchl Becker. Zlata was baptized with the name of Eugene Borisovna. In 1905, their son Vasily , who later became the world famous economist, Nobel laureate in economics, was born in Munich [4] .
Returning to Russia, Vasily Leontyev Sr. taught economics at first at Yuryevsky and then at St. Petersburg Universities [5] .
In 1917, he was a private assistant professor. Mandatory candidate of the Party of Socialist Revolutionaries to the Constituent Assembly. Elected to the All-Russian Constituent Assembly in the Novgorod Electoral District according to list No. 4 (Socialist-Revolutionaries) [6] . Member of the meeting of the Constituent Assembly on January 5, 1918.
In the mid-1920s, he joined the People’s Commissariat of Finance. During a business trip to Berlin, he became a defector. In the 1930s, he moved to the United States with his wife [7] .
The wife of Vasily Leontiev (son) Estel Marx wrote a biography of her husband’s parents “Genya and Vasily” [8] .
Works
- Flax business. - M.; L.: State. Publishing House, 1925. - 91 p.
Literature
- Leontief E. Genia & Wassily. - [Rhinebeck, N, Y]; Ninth Wave; 1983. - ISBN 0-9612576-0-1 .
- Protasov L.G. Father and son of the Leontief // Questions of history. - 2013. - No. 6. - P. 20—37.
Notes
- ↑ Different sources indicate different dates of life. In the biographical book of E. Leontief dates are dated 1878-1966, indicated on the tombstone, but in the article of L. Protasov the date of birth is January 12, 1880 with reference to the archival document.
- ↑ Genia and Wassily : The date of birth of Zlata Becker in American documents is indicated on September 17, 1883 ; in the surviving birth record in the metric books of Jewish born chancery of the Odessa city rabbi (available on the website of the Jewish genealogy JewishGen.org) date of birth - September 17, 1881
- ↑ US Social Secutiry Index: Eugenie Leontief (link not available)
- ↑ Economists by the grace of God: Vasily Leontyev
- ↑ Kuksin I. Vasily Vasilievich Leontyev
- ↑ Chronos. Leontiev Vasily Vasilievich
- ↑ Samin D.K. One Hundred Great Scientists
- ↑ Leontief Estelle Genia & Wassily: a Russian-American memoir. - Somerville, Mass., Zephur Press, 1987