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=== User: TIME: Late 1880s-early 1890s ===
TIME: Late 1880s-early 1890s
PLACE: St. Petersburg, Tsarist Russia

CHARACTERS:

MOISHE GERSHOVITZ -- a tinkerer and mechanic. Also a Jew. Tolerated by the goyim and allowed a certain amount of status because he has useful skills.

ROSA BRUSKIN - daughter of a furrier, also a Jew -- her family tolerated and able to live a middle-class lifestyle because they're 'useful' to the goyim.

Whether a love match or an arranged match, Moishe and Rosa marry and have four children:

ISRAEL - a real scholar who ultimately becomes a revolutionary poet and propaganda official under Stalin

YAKOB GYORGI - an active, energetic child (what we might call 'ADHD') who at age 12, demonstrates an amazing aptitude for music and goes on to study at the Moscow Conservatory. A respected composer and pianist at first, around the mid-to-late 1920s, his music begins to be 'corrupted' by the influences of a degrading Western capitalist form of music stolen from exploited Africans...earning him ire from the Stalinist government

ARTUR -- younger brother of Israel and Gyorgi, winds up a bureaucrat in the Kremlin

FRANKHEZKA -- Eventually joins the Bolshoi Ballet, but never distinguishes herself.

OK -- you recognize this family and the fact that Moishe and Rosa Gershovitz never made it out of Russia -- but somehow came through World War 1 and the Bolshevist Revolution relatively unscathed.

Go.