Letter from F.E. Dzerzhinsky's wife Sofya Sigismundovna to A.N. Troitskiy

An original autographed letter from Sofia, the wife of Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky, the founder of the CHEKA. It is addressed to Alexey Nikolaevich Troitsky, the former head of the 6th NKVD department for the Arkhangelsk region, then the head of the NKVD ITL for the Leningrad region. For the period of writing the letter, a pensioner of union significance. Guarantee of authenticity.

Sofia Sigismundovna Dzerzhinsky (nee — Mushkat; Polish. Zofia Julia Dzierżyńska, z domu Muszkat; December 4, 1882, Warsaw, Kingdom of Poland, Russian Empire — February 27, 1968, Moscow) was a leader of the revolutionary movement in Poland and Russia. F. E. Dzerzhinsky's wife.

She was born into a wealthy Polish-Jewish family. She studied piano from the age of seven. She was raised in a private kindergarten, opened by her cousin Julia Unschlicht. At the age of nine, she was left without a mother. She graduated from the Warsaw Conservatory. Member of the RSDLP (b) since 1905. The party's pseudonym is Charna. In the same year, she met F. E. Dzerzhinsky in Warsaw. She conducted party work in various Polish cities. In 1906, she was arrested and imprisoned in Warsaw prison. In 1908, he was a delegate to the 6th Congress of the Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania (SDKPiL). She worked on the Main Board of the SDKPiL. In 1909, she was arrested again and sent into exile. In 1910, she married Felix Dzerzhinsky. In December of the same year, she was arrested again. Yana gave birth to her son in the Serbia women's prison in 1911. She was sentenced to deprivation of all property rights and exile to an eternal settlement in Eastern Siberia. Before being sent to Siberia, she handed over her son to her stepmother for upbringing. She lived in Orlinga village for three years. In 1912, she escaped from exile using forged documents abroad. She was the secretary of the Bureau of the SDKPiL Foreign Sections in Krakow. At the beginning of the First World War, she went to Vienna, but, unable to find work there, she moved to Switzerland. After the October Revolution of 1917, she worked as a secretary for emigrant cash registers in Switzerland; in 1918, she worked at the Soviet mission in Bern.

In 1919, she returned to Soviet Russia; she worked in the People's Commissariat of Education, in the Polish Bureau of the Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party (b), at the Markhlevsky Communist University of National Minorities of the West. Since 1924, he has been executive secretary of the Polish Bureau of the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party (b). Since 1929, he has been a researcher and executive editor at the Institute of Marxism-Leninism in Moscow. Since 1937, she worked in the office of the Executive Committee of the Comintern. Since 1941, he has been the head of Polish—language broadcasts at the T. Kosciuszko radio station. He has been retired since 1946. She lived in the Kremlin until 1961. The author of the memoirs "In the years of the great battles" (1964). Sofia Sigismundovna Dzerzhinsky outlived her husband by 42 years and her son Jan by 8 years (1911-1960). She died at the age of 85 in Moscow in 1968. She was buried at the Novodevichy cemetery.