Leif Devidovitch Bronstein

Leif de vidovitch bronstein was the fifth child of a prosperous ucranian jewish family. He showed enough precocious intellectual promise that when he was eight years old, his parents sent him off to live in odessa with middle class cousins where he would receive a better and more worldly education. Young bronstein was smart and well liked, though also wilful and egotistical. His sins at this point were merely behavior rather than political or criminal. But this all changed in 18 96, when he was sent to do final year of school in the black seaport of mikolaef. This was the same year his future comrades were already so deep in