Gnesin

Gnesin, or Gnessin (Russian: Гнесин) is a Jewish Russian surname:

• Fabian Osipovich Gnesin (1837–1891), an official rabbi of Rostov-on-Don and father of a prominent Jewish Russian family of musicians and philanthropists.

• Sisters Gnesin:

• Yevgeniya Savina-Gnesina (1870–1940)
• Elena Gnesina (1874–1967)[1]
• Maria Gnesina (1876–1918)
• Yelizaveta Gnesina-Vitáček (1876–1953)
• Olga Alexandrova-Gnesina (1881–1963)

• Mikhail Gnesin (1883–1957), Jewish Russian composer
• Grigory Gnesin (1884–1938), singer and stage actor

• Gnesin State Musical College, Moscow
• Uri Nissan Gnessin (1879–1913), Jewish Russian writer, a pioneer in modern Hebrew literature
• Menahem Gnessin (1882–1951), Jewish Russian stage actor, younger brother of Uri Nissan Gnessin