Yakov Peters
| Yakov Peters | |
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| 1st Deputy Chief of Soviet State Security | |
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In office December 1917 – March 1919 |
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| Prime Minister | Vladimir Lenin |
| Preceded by | position created |
| Succeeded by | Ivan Ksenofontov |
| Chief of Petrograd Defense | |
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In office March 1919 – August 1919 |
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| Prime Minister | Vladimir Lenin |
| Chief of Kiev Defense | |
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In office August 1919 – August 1919 |
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| Prime Minister | Vladimir Lenin |
| Chief of Tashkent Cheka | |
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In office 1920–1926 |
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| Prime Minister | Vladimir Lenin |
| 1st Chief of East Department of GPU | |
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In office 2 June 1922 – 31 October 1929 |
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| Prime Minister |
Vladimir Lenin Aleksei Rykov |
| Preceded by | position created |
| Chairman of Moscow Control Commission of Party | |
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In office 1930–1934 |
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| Prime Minister | Vyacheslav Molotov |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 21 November [O.S. 3 December] 1886 Brinken district, Hasenpoth county, Courland Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Died | 25 April 1938 (aged 51) Kommunarka Shooting Range, Moscow Oblast, Soviet Union |
| Citizenship | Russia, Soviet Union |
| Nationality | Latvian |
| Political party | SDLK (1904-38) |
| Spouse(s) | Maisie Freeman (1910s-1917) |
| Children | May (daughter) |
| Alma mater | none |
| Profession | Statesman and revolutionary |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance | Russia, Soviet Union |
Yakov Khristoforovich Peters (Latvian: Jēkabs Peterss, Russian: Я́ков Христофо́рович Пе́терс, English: Jacob Peters, Jan Peters; 3 December [O.S. 21 November] 1886 – 25 April 1938) was a Latvian Communist revolutionary who played a part in the establishment of the Soviet Union. Together with Felix Dzerzhinsky, he was one of the founders and chiefs of the Cheka (VChK), the secret police of the Soviet Union. He was the Deputy Chairman of the Cheka from 1918 and briefly the acting Chairman of the Cheka from 7 July to 22 August 1918.
He was born in Brinken volost of Hasenpoth uyezd, Courland Governorate (now Nīkrāce parish, Skrunda Municipality), to a poor farmer's family on 3 December 1886. He became a member of the Latvian Social Democratic Workers' Party in 1904. In the aftermath of the Russian Revolution of 1905 he was arrested in 1907 for the attempted murder of a factory director in Libau, but was later acquitted by the Riga military court in 1908. Peters emigrated to England and lived in London where he was a member of the London Group of the Social Democracy of Latvia and of the British Socialist Party. In 1911, he achieved notoriety in Britain when he and four others were arrested and put on trial in the aftermath of the Sidney Street Siege, following a failed jeweler's shop robbery at Houndsditch in which three police officers were killed. Despite some incriminating evidence (in connection with Peter the Painter), Peters and his companions were acquitted, to the dismay of the Home Secretary, Winston Churchill.
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