Vyacheslav Menzhinsky.

Vyacheslav Rudolfovich Menzhinsky (Russian: Вячеслав Рудольфович Менжинский) (1874 - May 10, 1934) was a Russian Soviet administrator who served as chairman of the OGPU from 1926 to 1934. As a senior Chekist and confidant of Joseph Stalin, Menzhinsky was responsible for implementing many of the major purges in the Soviet Union. Image File history File linksMetadata Menzhisnky. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Menzhisnky. ... 1874 (MDCCCLXXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... May 10 is the 130th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (131st in leap years). ... 1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Soviet redirects here. ... Look up administrator in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Obedinennoe Gosudarstvennoe Politicheskoe Upravlenie (or OGPU) (Combined State Political Directorate, also translated as All Union State Political Board) was the name of the secret police in the Soviet Union in one of the stages of its development. ... 1926 (MCMXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Cheka (ЧК in Russian) was the first (of many) Soviet secret police organizations. ... The confidant character is usually someone the lead character confides in and trusts. ... (Russian, in full: Ио́сиф Виссарио́нович Ста́лин [Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin]; December 18 [O.S. December 6] 1878[1] – March 5, 1953) was the leader of the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s to his death in 1953 and General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1922-1953...

Fluent in many languages, Menzhinsky was nevertheless a taciturn man. Trotsky, who met him before the revolution, thought him unremarkable: "He seemed more like the shadow of some other unrealized man, or rather like a poor sketch for an unfinished portrait."

Vyacheslav Menzhinsky

Menzhinsky spent his last years as an invalid, suffering from acute angina which rendered him incapable of physical exertion. He conducted the affairs of the OGPU lying upon a divan in his office at the Lybianka. He expired in 1934, of natural causes, and avoided the ignominious fates which befell his successors, Genrikh Yagoda, Nikolai Yezhov, and Lavrenti Beria. When Yagoda made his public confession at the Moscow Trial of the Twenty One in 1938, he claimed he poisoned Menzhinsky, but given the preposturous nature of Yagoda's confession it seems improbable. Image File history File links Menzhinsky. ... Image File history File links Menzhinsky. ... Genrikh Yagoda Genrikh Grigorevich Yagoda (Генрих Григорьевич Ягода in Russian, born Enon Gershonovish Yagoda) (1891, Nizhny Novgorod - March 15, 1938, Moscow) was the head of the Soviet secret police, the NKVD, from 1934 to 1936. ... Yezhov along Moscow-Volga channel. ... Lavrenty Beria Lavrenty Pavlovich Beria (Russian: Лавре́нтий Па́влович Бе́рия) (29 March 1899 - 23 December 1953), Soviet politician and police chief, is remembered chiefly as the executor of Joseph Stalins Great Purge of the 1930s, although in fact he presided only over the closing stages of the Purge. ... The Trial of the Twenty One was the last of the Moscow Trials —Stalinist show trials of prominent Bolsheviks. ...