In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Rudolfovich and the family name is Menzhinsky.
Vyacheslav Menzhinsky
Вячеслав Менжинский
Menzhinsky in 1926
Chairman of the OGPU
In office 30 July 1926 – 10 May 1934
Premier
Alexei Rykov Vyacheslav Molotov
Preceded by
Felix Dzerzhinsky
Succeeded by
Genrikh Yagoda
People's Commissar for Finance of the RSFSR
In office 30 October 1917 – 21 March 1918
Premier
Vladimir Lenin
Preceded by
Ivan Skvortsov-Stepanov
Succeeded by
Isidore Gukovsky
Personal details
Born
Wiesław Mężyński
(1874-08-19)19 August 1874 Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Died
10 May 1934(1934-05-10) (aged 59) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Resting place
Kremlin Wall Necropolis, Moscow
Political party
RSDLP (1902–1903) RSDLP (Bolsheviks) (1903–1918) Russian Communist Party (1918–1934)
Alma mater
Saint Petersburg State University
Vyacheslav Rudolfovich Menzhinsky (Russian: Вячесла́в Рудо́льфович Менжи́нский, Polish: Wiesław Mężyński; 19 August 1874 – 10 May 1934) was a Bolshevik revolutionary, Soviet statesman and Communist Party official who served as chairman of the OGPU from 1926 to 1934. He was master of more than 10 languages[1] (including Korean, Chinese, Turkish, and Persian, the last one learned especially in order to read works by Omar Khayyám).
^Monefiore, Simon Sebag (2004). Stalin, The Court of the Red Tsar. London: Phoenix. p. 135. ISBN 0-75381-766-7.
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