Aaron Soltz (10 March 1872 ---> 30 April 1945) Soltz was born in 1872 in Lithuania, to a Jewish merchant family. He studied Law at St Petersburg University. In 1898, he became a member of the Social Democratic Party and was involved in illegal publishing. He was arrested for his participation in the Revolt of 1905, but escaped. He was exhiled to Turukhansk, where he shared the same house and reportedly the same bed as Stalin. From 1920, he was a member of the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party. In 1921, he pursued a career as a judge of the High Court of Russia. He was essentially the legal advisor for the Bolshevik Party. A wise man, the body of an owl is common in drawings of Soltz, including the one to the right. Even after the Civil War, Soltz continued working for the Bolshevik Party. In 1938, he was suspended from being a judge at the High Court of The Soviet Union because of him starting a hunger strike. He was imprisoned in a Moscow psychiatric clinic after 7 years treatment, in 1945. | |
