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Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky
Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky (; ; – 20 July 1926), nicknamed Iron Felix (), was a Soviet revolutionary and politician of Polish origin. From 1917 until his death in 1926, he led the first two Soviet secret police organizations, the Cheka and the OGPU, establishing Chronology of Soviet secret police agencies, state security organs for the Bolsheviks, Bolshevik government. He was a key architect of the Red Terror * * and de-Cossackization. Born to a Polish family of Szlachta, noble descent in their Dzerzhinovo, Ozhyemblovo Estate (in 1881 named Dzerzhinovo), in Russian Partition, Russian Poland, Dzerzhinsky embraced revolutionary politics from a young age, and was active in the Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania party. Active in Kaunas and Warsaw, he was frequently arrested and underwent several exiles to Siberia, from which he escaped every time. He evaded the tsarist secret police, the Okhrana, whose work he took interest in. Dzerzhinsky participated in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monument To Felix Dzerzhinsky, Moscow
The Monument to Felix Dzerzhinsky (), also known by the nickname Iron Felix (), commemorates Felix Dzerzhinsky (1877–1926), Bolshevik revolutionary and head of the first two Soviet state-security secret police organizations, the Cheka and the OGPU. The monument, designed by and incorporating a statue of Dzerzhinsky sculpted by Yevgeny Vuchetich, was erected on Dzerzhinsky Square, Moscow in 1958, next to the Lubyanka Building. History Construction and unveiling In 1918, the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission was located in the buildings on Lubyanska Square, the founder and first head of which was Felix Dzerzhinsky, who later headed other state security secret police agencies that were located there. In the autumn of 1926, shortly after Dzerzhinsky's death, Lubyanka Square was renamed Dzerzhinsky Square by the decision of the Presidium of the Moscow City Council. In 1940, a competition was announced for the project of a monument to Dzerzhinsky, which was won by Sarra Le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
