Sergei Eisenstein was born in Riga in 1898.
Would he become an architect like his father and go into German exile in 1918? Would he be banished as a Freemason in 1925, or stay in the USA in 1.
Eisenstein\'s life was full of unforeseen diversions and turns of events.
His mother was the daughter of wealthy Russian (and traditionally anti-Semitic) merchants from St.
Petersburg.
His father was a Jew of German origin who had converted to Russian Orthodoxy and who passed himself off as a Baltic baron.
Sergei Eisenstein was born in Riga in 1898