Slonimski, Leonid Zinovyevich
SLONIMSKI, LEONID ZINOVYEVICH
SLONIMSKI, LEONID ZINOVYEVICH (1850–1918), lawyer and publicist; son of Ḥayyim Selig *Slonimski, he was born in Zhitomir and graduated from the faculty of law of Kiev University in 1872. He settled in St. Petersburg and converted to the Greek Orthodox religion. He was a regular contributor of legal and sociological articles to Russian and international periodicals. From 1882 he was member of the editorial board of the liberal journal Vestnik Yevropy. Slonimski wrote on the juridical situation of Jews in Russia and abroad (Yevreyskaya Biblioteka, vol. 6, 1877), and dealt with the Jewish problem in many of his general articles. In 1906 he published a text of the Russian constitution, with a preface which caused its official suppression. Slonimski criticized the teachings of Karl Marx in his work Ekonomicheskoye ucheniye Karla Marksa (1898). His son alexander slonimski (1881–?) was a critic and novelist. He edited the authoritative editions of Pushkin's work. His son nicolas*slonimsky was an American musicologist, conductor, and composer. Another son, Mikhail *Slonimski, was a distinguished Russian-Soviet writer.
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Ginzburg, Historishe Verk, 2 (1937), 266.