Cohn, Elena (Helena)
- Born: Feb 20, 1893, Yakutsk, Siberia
- Marriage (1): Usievich, Grigory
- Died: Jan 15, 1968, Moscow, Soviet Union at age 74
General Notes:
Communist revolutioinary and literary critic. Born in Yakutsk, Siberia. She was married to Grigory Usievich, a Russian communist revolutionary whom she met in Switzerland. They both entered Russia in April of 1917 in th efamous "sealed train" w ith Lenin and other revolutionaries. They took part in the October Revolution and the Civil War between the Reds and the Whites. Grigory died in the Civil War in 1918 and was considered a revolutionary hero. Elena worked as an interrogator fo r the Cheka, (the first secret police organization in the Soviet Union and forerunner of the NKVD and KGB). During World War II she collaborated on a literary journal with the Polish communist author Wanda Wasilewska, whose novels she translate d into Russian. Elena was the author of several books, numerous articles, and was a major literary critic in the Soviet Union. Her books include: Pisateli i deistvitelnost (1936), Vladimir Mayakovsky (1950) and Paths of Aritistic Truth (1958).
Elena married Grigory Usievich. (Grigory Usievich died in 1918.)
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