Graevsky Moisey Yakovlevich (1891-1941)

Graevsky Moisey Yakovlevich (14 October 1891, Riga – 1941?) — lawyer.

Moisey Graevsky was born into the family of a merchant, Yakov Graevsky. In 1910, he graduated from the Riga Nikolayev Gymnasium, and in 1915 from the Faculty of Law at St. Petersburg University.

He worked as a secretary to the board of a joint-stock company in Petrograd. In 1916, he moved with his family to Saratov. From 24 March 1917 to March 1918, he was an assistant to the barrister Krasilshchikov. With the onset of Bolshevik repression, he relocated to the German colony of Katharinenstadt (now Marx, Saratov Region), where he worked as a secretary in the local self-government office.

In early 1921, he returned to Latvia. From 9 November 1921, he was assistant to the barrister Z. Jakobi. On 8 May 1929, he was admitted as a sworn advocate in Riga.

He was active in the Jewish non-partisan political organisation Ahdut and in 1927 served as editor of its weekly journal Ahdut, published in Russian and German.

During the Soviet occupation, he continued practising law. He perished in Riga during the Nazi occupation in 1941.

He was married to Tsire Shmulian (born 23 May 1895). They had two daughters: Henrietta (born 12 March 1923) and Josephine (born 20 March 1927).

He was a filister of the Jewish student corporation Vetulia.