Augusts Kirhenšteins was born on 18 September , 1872 on the estate of Valtenberg Manor in Mazsalaca , in the Governorate of Livonia . He was the eldest son of the tenant Martins Kirhenšteins and his wife Baba , in a family of eleven children . Augusts Kirhenšteins ' brother Rudolf Kirhenšteins ( 1891-1938 ) , went on to become a Soviet intelligence officer who was arrested and shot during the Great Terror
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Augusts Kirhenšteins