David Riazanov

David Riazanov (Russian: Дави́д Ряза́нов), born David Borisovich Goldendakh (Russian: Дави́д Бори́сович Гольдендах; 10 March 1870 – 21 January 1938), was a Russian revolutionary, historian, bibliographer and archivist. Riazanov founded the Marx–Engels Institute and edited the first large-scale effort to publish the collected works of these two founders of the modern socialist movement. Riazanov was a prominent victim of the Great Terror of the late 1930s.

David Riazanov
Дави́д Ряза́нов
Riazanov in 1923
Born
David Borisovich Goldendakh

(1870-03-10)10 March 1870
Odesa, Russian Empire (now Ukraine)
Died21 January 1938(1938-01-21) (aged 67)
Saratov, RSFSR, Soviet Union (now Russia)
Cause of deathExecution
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