Mikhail Abramovich
Mikhail Solomonovich Abramovich was a Russian poet and translator. He was the son of Mendele Mocher Sforim.
Biography
Mikhail Abramovich was born in Berditchev to Pesya and S. Y. Abramovich. He was educated at the Zhitomir gymnasium, though he did not graduate.In the fall of 1878 he went to St. Petersburg to enrol in the Military Medical Academy. Being implicated in a revolutionary movement, however, he was banished to the Archangel Governorate, then to Samara and Kazan. On his return, he graduated from the Saint Petersburg State [University Faculty of Law|Faculty of Law] of the University of Saint Petersburg in 1887, and from 1901 practised law.
His earliest poems appeared in Voskhod, Nedyelya, and other periodicals, on general and Jewish subjects. A collection of his poetry was published in book form in 1889. Soon after, Abramovich informally married the playwright Manefa de Fréville, daughter of the provincial secretary of the State Bank of the [Russian Empire|State Loan Bank] in Riga. Years later, however, when their son Vsevolod was refused admission to school on the basis of the law on illegitimate children, Abramovich decided to be baptized so that they could legally marry. According to some sources, he returned to Judaism after their divorce.
Abramovich left Russia after the October Revolution. He died in Brussels in 1940.