Mikhail Trilisser
| Mikhail Trilisser | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Meier Abramovich Trilisser April 1, 1883 Astrakhan |
| Died | February 2, 1940 (aged 56) |
| Cause of death | execution |
| Other names | Mikhail Aleksandrovich Moskvin, Moskvin, Mikhail Aleksandrovich Moskvin |
| Occupation | Intelligence officer |
| Years active | 1901–1938 |
| Agent | Cheka, GPU, OGPU, NKVD |
| Known for | role in the "Trust" |
| Political party | Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, Bolshevik Party |
| Website | svr |
Mikhail Abramovich Trilisser (Russian: Ме́ер Абра́мович Трили́ссер; Jewish, born Meier Abramovich Trilisser) (1 April 1883, Astrakhan – 2 February 1940), also known by the pseudonym Moskvin (Russian: Москви́н), was a Soviet chief of the Foreign Department of the Cheka and the OGPU. Later, he worked for the NKVD as a covert bureau chief and Comintern leader.
Trilisser was born Meier Abramovich Trilisser on April 1, 1883 in Astrakhan. His father was a shoemaker. He graduated from the Astrakhan city school.
In 1901, Trilisser joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in Odessa and was arrested in the same year for revolutionary activities.
During the revolution of 1905, he was a revolutionary propagandist in Kazan, Petrograd and Finland. In July 1907, the police arrested him, investigated him at length and sentenced him in 1909 to eight years of hard labor. In November 1914 during this sentence, the government sent him into permanent exile in Siberia.
After the February Revolution of 1917, Trilisser served first as editor of the Irkutsk newspaper Voice of the Social-Democrat and then in the military Irkutsk Committee of the Bolsheviks.
In October 1917, Trilisser worked to foil counterrevolutionaries and bandits in Siberia. As the Bolsheviks regained territory in the Far East from the Japanese, Trilisser worked underground in the Russian-Chinese border town of Blagoveshchensk, north of Harbin. After helping form a buffer state, the Far Eastern Republic (FER) or Chita Republic (1920–1922), Trilisser was appointed commissioner of the Amur region.
By 1921, Trilisser was working under Felix Dzerzhinsky in the foreign intelligence department of the Soviet secret police or Cheka. In 1922, he became of the foreign department of the new State Political Directorate (GPU), (later OGPU).
...
Wikipedia