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Sofia Dzerzhinskaya

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Birth Date:
04.12.1882
Death date:
27.02.1968
Extra names:
Zofia Dzierżynska, Софья Дзержинская, Софья Сигизмундовна ДЗЕРЖИНСКАЯ, Чарна, МУШКАТ, Zofia Muszkat
Categories:
Bolshevik, Communist, Pedagogue, teacher, Revolutionary
Cemetery:
Novodevichy Cemetery

Sofia Sigizmundovna Dzerzhinskaya born Muszkat (Polish: Zofia Julia Dzierżynska z domu Muszkat Russian: Софья Сигизмундовна Дзержинская (до замужества—Мушкат) (4 December 1882, Warsaw - 27 February 1968, Moscow) was a leading Polish Social Democrat and later Communist politician, and spouse of Feliks Dzerzhinky.

She was married to Felix Dzerzhinsky on 10 November 1910 in Kraków 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 worked at the Executive Committee of Comintern. In 1969, her memoirs "Lata wielkich bojów: wspomnienia" were published in Poland by Książka i Wiedza publishing house.

 

Source: wikipedia.org

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        Relation nameRelation typeBirth DateDeath dateDescription
        1Felix DzerzhinskyFelix DzerzhinskyHusband11.09.187720.07.1926
        2Edmund DzierżyńskiEdmund DzierżyńskiFather in-law27.05.183800.00.1882
        3
        Елена ДзержинскаяMother in-law
        4
        Альдона ЙозефовичSister in-law
        5
        Ванда ЙозефовичSister in-law
        6Vladislavs  DzeržinskisVladislavs DzeržinskisBrother in-law01.03.188120.03.1942
        7Roman PillarRoman Pillardistant relative00.00.189402.09.1937

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