[1] He was the son of Yehuda Leib Schneersohn, who founded the Kopust dynasty and was a grandson of the Menachem Mendel Schneersohn (the third Chabad Rebbe).

He succeeded his father immediately following his death in 1866.

[1] Shlomo Zalman Schneersohn placed a portrait of his grandfather in his courtyard for his followers to see.

The move is understood to help lend legitimacy to the Kapust branch of Chabad Hasidism.

Additional members of Schneersohn family are not listed here