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Felix Dzerzhinsky was born on 11 September 1877 to ethnically Polish parents of noble descent, [6] [7] at the Dzerzhinovo family estate, about 15 km (9.3 mi) from the small town of Ivyanets in the Minsk Governorate of the Russian Empire (now Belarus ). [8] In the Russian Empire, his family was of a type known as "column-listed nobility ...
Jul 20, 1998 · Feliks Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky (born Sept. 11 [Aug. 30, Old Style], 1877, Dzerzhinovo, near Minsk, Russian Empire [now in Belarus]—died July 20, 1926, Moscow) was a Bolshevik leader and the head of the first Soviet secret police organization. Son of a Polish nobleman, Dzerzhinsky joined the Kaunas (Kovno) organization of the Lithuanian Social ...
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Felix Dzerzhinsky, the ruthless Polish Bolshevik put in charge of the CHEKA Dzerzhinksy, like Lenin, had devoted his life to the Bolshevik cause. Born in Poland in 1877, Dzerzhinsky’s family were wealthy landed gentry with claims to a noble title, making him a most unlikely radical.
Mar 29, 2022 · Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky, founder of the Bolshevik secret police, the Cheka, later the KGB, c. 1919. (Photo: Laski Collection/Getty Images)
Jan 20, 2019 · The career and thinking of Felix Dzerzhinsky is a testament to this notion. Nicknamed Iron Felix, he founded the infamous Soviet security organization Cheka , known for its brutal enforcement of ...
Iron Felix. To head the Commission the Council named Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky (11 September 1877 – 20 July 1926), nicknamed Iron Felix, a veteran Bolshevik who had taken an active part in ...
The nickname "Iron Felix" refers not only to his own iron discipline and the iron fist of Dzerzhinsky and the Cheka, but to his 15-ton bronze monument which once dominated the Lubyanka Square in Moscow, near the KGB headquarters. It was erected in 1958 by sculptor Yevgeny Vuchetich and was a Moscow landmark in Soviet times.
