Aleksander Yakovlevich Arosev (Russian: Алекса́ндр Я́ковлевич Аро́сев; 6 June [O.S. 25 June] 1890 – 10 February 1938) was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet diplomat and writer.
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Biography
Revolutionary career
Arosev was born in to the family of a tailor. His mother was the daughter of the Narodnaya Volya member August Johann Goldschmidt (of German Baltic descent); his father was the son of former serfs.
In 1905 he joined the Party of Socialist Revolutionaries and participated in the 1905 Revolution. In 1907, under the influence of his old friend Vyacheslav Skryabin (later Vyacheslav Molotov), he joined the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party.