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Aleksandrs Grīns

Died in 1941

Jēkabs Grīns, who took the first name Aleksandrs during the First War, was born on 15 August 1895. Trained at the Alekseyev military school in Moscow, he joined the Latvian riflemen in 1916 and was seriously wounded at the Jugla in September 1917. Enlisted in the Red Army in 1919, he left it at Bauska for a Latvian brigade and left the army a captain in 1924. A translator of Remarque and Ludwig Renn, author of Dvēseļu putenis, decorated with the Order of the Three Stars and the Order of Viesturs, he was arrested in June 1941 and died in Astrakhan on 25 December 1941.

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