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Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky (Polish: Feliks Dzierżyński [ˈfɛliɡz d͡ʑɛrˈʐɨj̃skʲi]; Russian: Фе́ликс Эдму́ндович Дзержи́нский; 11 September [O.S. 30 August] 1877 – 20 July 1926), nicknamed "Iron Felix", was a Bolshevik revolutionary and politician.
Feliks Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky, Polish Feliks Dzierżyński, (born Sept. 11 [Aug. 30, Old Style], 1877, Dzerzhinovo, near Minsk, Russian Empire [now in Belarus]—died July 20, 1926, Moscow), Bolshevik leader, head of the first Soviet secret police organization.
A bronze statue of “Iron Felix” Dzerzhinsky, the ruthless founder of the Soviet secret police and architect of the Red Terror that followed the 1917 revolution, has been unveiled at the...
1 Biography 2 Leader of Cheka 3 Legacy 3.1 Iron Felix 3.2 Miscellany 4 Notes 5 References 6 External links 7 Credits Dzerzhinsky's statue, which towered over Lubyanka Square in Moscow, was toppled as part of the celebration of the collapse of communism.
The Monument to Felix Dzerzhinsky (Russian: Памятник Дзержинскому, romanized: Pamyatnik Dzerzhinskomu), also known by the nickname Iron Felix (Russian: Железный Феликс, romanized: Zheleznyy Feliks), commemorates Felix Dzerzhinsky (1877–1926), Bolshevik revolutionary and head of the first two Soviet state-security secret police organizations, the Cheka and ...
MOSCOW, Sept 11 (Reuters) - A bronze statue of "Iron Felix" Dzerzhinsky, the ruthless founder of the Soviet secret police and architect of the Red Terror which followed the 1917 revolution, was ...
Felix Dzerzhinsky. Felix Dzerzhinsky (1877-1926) was a minor aristocrat of Polish birth who oversaw the Bolshevik party’s much-feared security agencies, the Cheka and the OGPU. Dzerzhinsky was born in Ivyanets in what is now Belarus.
DZERZHINSKY, FELIX EDMUNDOVICH (1877–1926), Polish revolutionary; first head of the Soviet political police. Felix Dzerzhinsky descended from a Polish noble family of long standing, with known paternal roots in seventeenth-century historic Lithuania.
Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky , nicknamed "Iron Felix", was a Bolshevik revolutionary and politician. From 1917 until his death in 1926, he led the first two Soviet secret police organizations, the Cheka and the OGPU, establishing state security organs for the post-revolutionary Soviet regime.
Articles. (1877–1926). Felix E. Dzerzhinsky was the first head of the Soviet Union’s secret police; born near Minsk (now in Belarus); joined Lithuanian Social Democratic party 1895; often arrested for revolutionary activities and exiled to Siberia; became head of Polish-Lithuanian Social Democrats about 1905; united his party with Russian ...