Yevno Azef

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. ShorttitleYevno Azef (Russian: ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ (¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿) ¿¿¿¿, 1869-1918, also transliterated as Evno Azef), was a Russian socialist revolutionary who was also a double agent working both as an organizer of assassinations for the Socialist-Revolutionary Party (also known as SRs or Esers) and a police spy for the Okhrana, the Imperial secret police. He was an agent provocateur, carrying out acts of terrorism, which justified the police's arresting his accomplices. Born as Evno Fishelevich Azef in Lyskovo (now Brest Voblast, Belarus) in 1869 to a poor Jewish family, he received only basic schooling. Later he worked as a journalist and a traveling salesman. He became a revolutionary as a young man. In 1892, when he was about to be arrested, he embezzled 800 rubles and fled to Germany, first to Karlsruhe and then Darmstadt. There he studied to become an electrical engineer. In those years Sergei Vasilyevich Zubatov of the Okhrana also recruited him as a police informer.

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