Mark Rothko (Mark Kowitz Roth, Mark Rotkovich) was born in Daugavpils, Vitebsk province, Russian Empire (now Daugavpils, Latvia). His father, Jacob Roth Kowitz, was a pharmacist and an intellectual who have children with a secular and political, but religious education is available. Unlike Jews in most cities of Czarist Russia in Daugavpils violent outbreak of [...]