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Vyacheslav Rudolfovich Menzhinsky (Russian: Вячесла́в Рудо́льфович Менжи́нский, Polish: Wiesław Rudolfowicz Mężyński; 31 August [O.S. 19 August] 1874 – 10 May 1934) was a Soviet revolutionary and politician who served as chairman of the OGPU, the secret police of the Soviet Union, from 1926 to 1934.
Vyacheslav Menzhinsky. Vyacheslav Menzhinsky, the son of a Polish lawyer, was born in St. Petersburg, on 19th August, 1874. He graduated from the Faculty of Law at Saint Petersburg University in 1898. Menzhinsky joined the Social Democratic Labour Party in 1902.
Vyacheslav Rudolfovich Menzhinsky was a Soviet revolutionary and politician who served as chairman of the OGPU, the secret police of the Soviet Union, from 1926 to 1934.
Dzerzhinsky died in 1926 and was succeeded as chief of the OGPU by deputy chairman Vyacheslav Menzhinsky . From 1927 to 1929, the OGPU engaged in intensive investigations of an opposition coup d'etat.
Menzhinsky drifted abroad to avoid the authorities' recriminations. He roamed France, the USA, Italy and Britain for eleven years, working as a bank clerk for Credit Lyonnais in Paris, as a water-colour painter, as a teacher at the Bolshevik Party school in Bologna.
Vyacheslav Menzhinsky (19 August 1874-10 May 1934) was the Director of the State Political Directorate of the Soviet Union from 30 July 1926 to 10 May 1934, succeeding Felix Dzerzhinsky and preceding Genrikh Yagoda.
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Vyacheslav Rudolfovich Menzhinsky (Russian: Вячесла́в Рудо́льфович Менжи́нский, Polish: Wiesław Rudolfowicz Mężyński; 31 August [O.S. 19 August] 1874 – 10 May 1934) was a Soviet revolutionary and politician who served as chairman of the OGPU, the secret police of the Soviet Union, from 1926 to 1934. Born to ...
