Felix Dzerzkhinsky in Switzerland, 1918, with his wife and son. The son was born in 1911 in prison where Sophia Dzerzkhinsky was a political prisoner.
On this day the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service was created as a special section of the Cheka. Felix Dzerzhinkshy was at its head.
Dzerzhinkshy was a Pole of noble birth who was radicalized at some point in his early years and went on to a blood stained role in the early Soviet Union. He died of a heart attack at age 59 in 1926.
