Background
Grinkrug, Lev was born in 1889 in Smolensk. Son of Aleksandr Grinkrug, a Jewish banker and doctor, and Anna Germanovna Schmel’kina, daughter of a Moscow banker.
Grinkrug, Lev was born in 1889 in Smolensk. Son of Aleksandr Grinkrug, a Jewish banker and doctor, and Anna Germanovna Schmel’kina, daughter of a Moscow banker.
Graduated in law from Moscow University, 1911.
Met Mayakovsky and Lili Brik, and became a close friend and member of the family.
Worked at his father’s bank. From 1919-1925, worked as a financial director of ROSTA (later, the TASS Agency).
In 1925, spent 6 months in Paris and Juan-les-Pins, in the South of France. Did not return to the USSR.