Kamenev, Lev (redirected from Lev Borisovich Rosenfeld)

Kamenev, Lev (Borisovich)

 orig. Lev Borisovich Rosenfeld

(born July 18, 1883, Moscow, Russia—died Aug. 24, 1936, Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R.) Russian political leader. A member of the Bolsheviks from 1903, he worked with Vladimir Ilich Lenin in Europe (1909–14), then returned to Russia, where he was arrested and sent to Siberia. After the Russian Revolution of 1917, he served as head of the Moscow soviet (1919–25). When Lenin became seriously ill in 1922, Kamenev joined Joseph Stalin and Grigory Y. Zinovyev to form the ruling triumvirate, attacking Leon Trotsky. In 1925 Stalin shifted his attack to Kamenev and Zinovyev, removng Kamenev as Moscow party head. In 1926 Kamenev was expelled from the party after conspiring with Zinovyev and Trotsky against Stalin. In 1936 he was tried in the first of the purge trials and confessed to fabricated charges, hoping to save his family. He was executed, and his wife, Trotsky's sister, perished in the Gulag.

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Kamenev, Lev L’vovich 

Born in 1833, in Ryl’sk, Kursk Province; died Jan. 14 (26), 1886, in Savvinskaia Sloboda, Moscow Province. Russian landscape painter.

Kamenev lived in Astrakhan until 1854, at which time he moved to Moscow. From 1854 to 1858 he studied under K. I. Rabus and A. K. Savrasov at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture. From 1862 to 1865 he lived and studied in Munich, Diisseldorf, and Switzerland. Kamenev was a founding member of the Society of Traveling Art Exhibitions (peredvizhniki). His work played an important role in the development of 19th-century Russian national realist landscape painting. His paintings include Near Porech’e Village (1869, Russian Museum, Leningrad), Spring (1866, Tret’iakov Gallery), Fog: Red Pond in Moscow in the Autumn (1871, Tret’iakov Gallery), and Landscape (1872, Tret’iakov Gallery).

REFERENCE

Bespalova, L. A. L. L. Kamenev: 1833–1886. Moscow, 1954.