Background
Moses Leizerovich Berstein was born on December 31, 1880 in Krasnodar, Russian Federation. His surname has German and Jewish roots.
Moses Leizerovich Berstein was born on December 31, 1880 in Krasnodar, Russian Federation. His surname has German and Jewish roots.
In 1907, after passing the external exams at the 5th Moscow gymnasium, Moses Leizerovich received a "certificate of maturity". From 1907 to 1912 was a student of Petersburg University at the law faculty. Studied for some time at the faculty of medicine at the Paris University.
He had been performing humorous stories. As a reviewer and literary critic he collaborated with M. "New juvenile", "Satirist, " Niva", "world panorama", "Sun of Russia", "Ramp and life", "Free magazine", etc.; participated in "Love and Death" (both - Saint-Petersburg., 1910), which had the reputation of "hotbeds of moral nihilism". Had been editing and publishing "Contemporary word" magazine (1907-08), "New magazine for everyone" (1908-12), "New life" (1910-11, 1913-14), "New Russia" ("every month- 1911), "Free magazine" (1913-16).
His publishing activity could be characterized as "liberal-democratic without without a clear ideological aesthetic. direction"