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Sofia Sigizmundovna Dzerzhinskaya (born Muszkat; Polish: Zofia Dzierżyńska—Muszkat; ‹See Tfd› Russian: Софья Сигизмундовна Дзержинская—Мушкат; 4 December 1882 – 27 February 1968) was a leading Polish Social Democrat and later Communist politician.
Polish-born Russian revolutionary leader who survived both tsarism and Stalinism, publishing her memoirs when she was in her 80s. Name variations: Zofia Dzierzynska; Sofia Dzerzhinskaia; Zosia Dzerzhinskaya.
Mar 8, 2020 · Sofia Dzerzhinskaya actively corresponded and met with the pioneers and Komsomol members, telling them about her husband’s life. In 1937 she was appointed to the Executive Committee of the Comintern, in 1946, retired.
Mar 31, 2017 · 07.03.17. I am still in solitary confinement with the same companion, and fairly content on the whole. I work at my machine for five hours every day. You don’t need to send me anything, and in any case, almost everything is forbidden except pork fat, sugar and bread, but we have all that here anyway.
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Sofia Sigizmundovna Dzerzhinskaya born Muszkat (Polish language: She was born in Warsaw to a jewish family. She married 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. She died in Moscow.
•Provisional Polish Revolutionary Committee
•Robert Blobaum: Feliks Dzierzynsky and the SDKPiL: A study of the origins of Polish Communism (1984). ISBN 0-88033-046-5
Sofia Dzerzhinskaya was a Polish Jewish Social Democrat who later became a Communist politician. She is remembered in part because she was the wife of Felix Dzerzhinsky, whom she married on November 10, 1910.
Mar 1, 2024 · 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 ...
