Alexander (Sasha) Cherkassky
Alexander, known as Sasha, was born on December 13th, 1912 in
Smila, Ukraine. Sasha's father was
Yakov Cherkassky and his mother was
Leah Dashevsky. His paternal grandfather was
Grigory Cherkassky. He had three brothers and four sisters, named
Solomon,
Isaak,
Yury,
Roza,
Fenya,
Manya and
Ida. He was the youngest of the eight children. He died from a heart attack at the age of 58 on August 1st, 1971 in
Odessa, Ukraine.