Ilja Ehrenburg was born on January 15, 1891 in Kiev, Russian Empire as Ilja Grigoryevich Ehrenburg. He was a writer, known for The Love of Jeanne Ney (1927), Dýmky (1966) and Komunaris chibukhi (1929). He was married to Ljuba Michailowna Kosinzewa. He died on August 31, 1967 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].