Yakov Grigoshin
Yakov Pahomovich Grigoshin was an Erzya poet. He is considered to be the founder of Erzya literature. He wrote his first poems in Russian while studying to become a teacher, but later he used his native language Erzya. He authored some of the first Erzya-language textbooks and published several collections of poems and stories. Grigoshin was shot to death in the Great Purge.