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Dzerzhinsky, Felix Edmundovich
(&#x;), 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 dzerzhinsky personality
His father Edmund taught physics and mathematics at the male gymnasium in Taganrog before retiring to the family estate located in present-day Belarus. His mother, Helena Januszewska, came from a well-connected aristocratic family.
After Edmund's death in , she raised Felix in a devout Roman Catholic and Polish patriotic environment. A sheltered child, Dzerzhinsky was earmarked by his mother for the priesthood, but his participation in a series of progressively radical student circles in Vilnius led to his expulsion from the gymnasium two months before graduation in His subsequent involvement
with the fledgling Lithuanian Social Democratic Party ended with his arrest in Kaunas in , the first of six arrests in his revolutionary career.
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