Moisey Pavlovich (Moishe-Yankel) Tsirlin (Tsyrlin)

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1933 or 1934.

Father: Pavel (Pinkhus) Tsirlin

Mother: Sura Yankelevna

Spouse: Maria Tsirlin (Tsyrlin) née Gurvich

Children:

Biographical information:

Moisey was born in 1871 in Obukhov. Moisey married Maria in 1892 in Rzhishchev. Status given as Cherkassy bourgeois (same as father).

Moved to Kanev not later than 1895, where his sons Iogan (Iohonon) and Miron were born. In Iogan's birth certificate, 1895, Moisey's name is given as Moishe-Yankel'.

By 1900 the family is in Kiev, where Solomon and Emil are born, and Iogan entered school. They remain classified as Cherkassy bourgeois. Moisey's 1912 internal passport, issued in Cherkassy, states that he has no permanent residence. The passport also confirms the 4 sons mentioned, and a daughter Sara (Alexandra, called Shura) born 1905 or 1906.

Kiev address, 1914: B. Vasil'kovskaya str. 18-25; in 1918: Suvorovskaya ul. 2.

In the 1920's at least four of the five children moved to Leningrad, and the parents followed them. Telephone directory listings for Moisey:
AddressNumberYear
Ligovskaya 91553-721925, 1926
Zagorodnyi 23486-871927, 1928
Rza'yezzhaya 16 (later 16/18)486-87; later, A-4-86-871929-31, 1937, 1940

Moisey passed away in 1940. Maria probably died in the blockade in 1941 (documents include a photograph of the tombstone by Alexander A. Tsirlin, not easily read).

Note on the Surname: Moisey's family tend to use the Russian form equivalent to Tsyrlin while his other relatives favor Tsirlin.

Sources:
St. Petersburg directory, 1934 via Pavel Bernshtam (2006)
Galina Tsirlin (2014)
David Tuval (2015)
Galina Tsirlin (2017): Legal records (1914), Metric record, and other documents;
see also
Pinkhus

2006, 2014, 2017