Lev Levin


Lev Grigorevich Levin, real name Usher Gershevich Leib Levin was a physician, the doctor of medical sciences, professor, consultant medical and sanitary control of the Kremlin.

Biography

Levin was a graduate of the natural separation of Physics and Mathematics Faculty of Odessa University and Medical Faculty of Moscow University.
In 1896-1897 he trained in Berlin, and then - in various hospitals of Moscow in 1907–1919 years - the factory doctor, then the doctor-intern resort qualifying Hospital of People's Commissariat of the RSFSR, enlisted in the Red Army.
Since 1920 - doctor-ordinator, head of the therapy department in the Kremlin hospital. At the same time adviser Lechsanupra Kremlin and the medical unit of the NKVD of the USSR. He was the personal physician of Maxim Gorky, Vladimir Lenin, Felix Dzerzhinsky, Vyacheslav Molotov, Genrikh Yagoda, Vyacheslav Menzhinsky and many other leaders of the party and the government.
Since childhood, he was a close friend of the painter Leonid Pasternak, Moscow in years - a doctor throughout the Pasternak family.

The arrest, trial and death

Levin was arrested on December 3, 1937. He was shot on March 15, 1938 by the verdict of the Military Collegium of the USSR Supreme Court on March 13 of that year as a member of the counter-revolutionary plot to eliminate the country's leadership.

Family