Biography
Pastor Adalbert Gustav Michael Lesta was born 20 November 1869 (other sources: 2 December) in Dorpat, Estonia. He died 21 October 1941 in Brütz, Meckelenburg (Germany). He served the congregations in Yagodnaya-Polyana (1896-1897), Samara (1897-1904), Tobolks (1904-1909), Tomsk (1909-1914), and Vladivostok (1914-1922). In October 1922, he immigrated to Germany.
Sources
- Schnurr, Joseph. Die Kirchen und das religiöse Leben der Russlanddeutschen - Evangelischer Teil (Stuttgart: Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Russland, 1978): 155.