Mikhail Gertsovich Kliatskin (or Klyatskin) (Poland, Warsaw 1896 - Ussr, Moscow 14.04.1926)

Chess player and very talented chess composer of endgame studies

He was a study composer with romantic style who worked in the Kremlin and probably saw Lenin and Stalin!
Mikhail Klyatskin was a lawyer, the last years of his life worked in the Department of Affairs of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR,
where he headed the department of publication of laws.

Ильин-Женевский: «Ему было всего 29 лет. Предательская смерть рано подкосила эту многообещающую жизнь…»

Mikhail Kliatskin died at the age of 29 and had shown talent with his interesting endgame studies that will surely appeal to many chess players.

Link

More about him at Russian Wikipedia.

On the Website pdb.dieschwalbe.de can be found 9 endgame studies by him.

Website ARVES: 5 chess studies composed by him are selected on Dutch Website arves.org (editor Peter Boll)

Death

He died on April 14, 1926 after a severe lung disease. He was buried at the Dorogomilovskoye Cemetery. (wikipedia.ru)

Literature
Klyatskin, Mich. Gertsovich // Chess Player Dictionary / Author: M. S. Kogan [and others]; under the overall editorship of Prof. A. A. Smirnova.. - L.: Schachblatt, 1929. - p. 221. - 518 p.
Chess: Encyclopedic Dictionary / Ch. Edited by A.E. Karpov. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1990. - P. 162. - 621 p. — 100,000 copies. — ISBN 5-85270-005-3.

Source; www.arves.org and wikipedia.ru