What is "gnesin"

Gnesin, or Gnessin is a Jewish Russian surname:

• Fabian Gnesin

:* Elena Fabianovna Gnesina (1874, Rostov/Don – 1967, Moscow), Jewish Russian composer

:* Mikhail Fabianovich Gnesin (1883, Rostov/Don – 1957), Jewish Russian composer, elder brother of Elena

::* Gnesin State Musical College, Moscow

• Uri Nissan Gnessin (1879–1913), Jewish Russian writer, a pioneer in modern Hebrew literature