Ilja Ehrenburg was born on January 15, 1891 in Kyiv, Kyiv Governorate, Russian Empire [now Kyiv, Ukraine]. He was a writer, known for Komunaris chibukhi (1929), Die Liebe der Jeanne Ney (1927) and Pfeifen, Betten, Turteltauben (1966). He was married to Ljuba Michailowna Kosinzewa. He died on August 31, 1967 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].
