Semyon Solomonovich Yushkevich ,(July 12, 1868 - December 2, 1927), was a Russian language writer, and playwright and a member of the Moscow literary group Sreda

Sreda (literary group)

The Moscow Literary Sreda was a Moscow literary group founded in 1899 by Nikolay Teleshov. The name Sreda means Wednesday, taken from the day of the week on which writers and other artists met at Teleshov's home. The last meeting of the Sreda took place in 1916...

. He was a representative of the Jewish-Russian school of literature.

Yushkevich studied medicine at the Sorbonne

Sorbonne

The Sorbonne is an edifice of the Latin Quarter, in Paris, France, which has been the historical house of the former University of Paris...

, before beginning his writing career.

Yushkevich's first story was published in 1897, entitled "The Tailor: From Jewish Daily Life" (Портной. Из еврейского быта) in Russkoye Bogatstvo

Russkoye Bogatstvo

Russkoye Bogatstvo was a monthly magazine published in St. Petersburg, Russia, from 1876 to mid-1918. In the early 1890s, it was an organ of the liberal Narodniks. Beginning in 1906, it became an organ of the Popular Socialists....

. Yushkevich wrote for the theater, including the 1903 play "King" (Король). Yushkevich wrote novels as well, such as "Leon Drei" (Леон Дрей).

During Yushkevich's lifetime, in Petrograd, a 15-volume collection of his works was published.

Yushkevich spent time in Berlin following the Kishinev Pogrom

Kishinev pogrom

The Kishinev pogrom was an anti-Jewish riot that took place in Chişinău, then the capital of the Bessarabia province of the Russian Empire on April 6-7, 1903.-First pogrom:...

in 1903. Yushkevich emigrated in 1920. He lived in Romania, France, the United States, and Germany before his death in Paris in 1927.