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# Vysotsky's paternal grandparents and Lev Levin, the doctor executed in 1938
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/dedushku-i-babushku-vladimira-vysotskogo-po-ottsu-zvali-volf-shliomovich-vysotskii-i-dora-ovseevna-bronshtein-2/
- Published: 2025-07-14T08:02:28.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-02T18:35:23.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Archive, Society, People

The paternal grandparents of Vladimir Vysotsky were called Wolf Shliomovich Vysotsky and Dora Ovseyevna Bronstein. Wolf was a schoolfellow of Mikhoels and Babel. Dora Ovseyevna's stepfather, Lev Levin, physician to members of the government and to Maxim Gorky, was shot in 1938 on a charge of participating in a Right-Trotskyist conspiracy to do away with the Soviet leadership