Sofia Dzerzhinskaya

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Sofia Sigizmundovna Dzerzhinskaya born Muszkat (Polish: Zofia Julia Dzierżynska z domu Muszkat) (4 December 1882, Warsaw - 27 February 1968, Moscow) was a Polish Social Democrat and later Communist politician.

She was married to Felix Dzerzhinsky on 10 November 1910 in Krakow at the St Nicholas Church. On 23 June 1911 she gave birth to their first son and only child Jan(ek) in Pawiak prison.

From September 1918 through February 1919 Sofia was a member of the Soviet diplomatic mission in Bern. From 1920 she lived in the Soviet Union, in Moscow where she worked as a teacher. In 1922 Sofia worked in the School of Rosa Luxemburg in Moscow, later, 1923-24 at the Communist University of the National Minorities of the West. After that worked in the Polish Bureau of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. In 1939-43 Sofia works at the Executive Committee of Comintern.

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Robert Blobaum: Feliks Dzierzynsky and the SDKPiL: A study of the origins of Polish Communism (1984). ISBN 0-88033-046-5

Persondata
Name	Dzerzhinskaya, Sofia
Alternative names
Short description	Polish communist
Date of birth	1882
Place of birth	Warsaw
Date of death	1968
Place of death	Moscow

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