Menachem Mendel Schneerson [SEP] residence
in Russian Empire.
Menachem Mendel Schneerson was born on April 18, 1902 (OS) (11 Nissan, 5662) in the Black Sea port of Nikolaev in the Russian Empire (now Mykolaiv in Ukraine). His father was rabbi Levi Yitzchak Schneerson, a renowned Talmudic scholar and authority on Kabbalah and Jewish law. His mother was Rebbetzin Chana Schneerson ("née" Yanovski). He was named after the third Chabad rebbe, the Tzemach Tzedek, from whom he was a direct patrilineal descendant.
In 1907
Chana Schneerson arrived in Paris. She had not seen her oldest son, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the future seventh and last Rebbe of Lubavitch, since his departure from Leningrad to go to Riga twenty years earlier where he had gone to rejoin his future father-in-law, rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn, the sixth Rebbe of Lubavitch.
Lubavitch Hasidim went to welcome Menachem Mendel at the airport, but his flight was delayed by four hours. They decided to wait for him at the residence of Rabbi Schneour Zalman Schneersohn,