Gnesin
Appearance
Origin | |
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Language(s) | Slavic, Russian |
Meaning | Agnes |
Region of origin | Poland, Russia |
Other names | |
Variant form(s) | Gnesz, Gniesyn (Poland) |
Gnesin, or Gnessin is a Jewish Russian surname:
- Fabian Gnesin
- Elena Fabianovna Gnesina (1874, Rostov/Don – 1967, Moscow), Jewish Russian composer[1]
- Mikhail Fabianovich Gnesin (1883, Rostov/Don – 1957), Jewish Russian composer, elder brother of Elena
- Gnesin State Musical College, Moscow
- Uri Nissan Gnessin (1879–1913), Jewish Russian writer, a pioneer in modern Hebrew literature