Yevno Azef

Deceased Person

1869 – 1918

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Who was Yevno Azef?

Yevno Azef, was a socialist revolutionary who was also a double agent working both as an organizer of assassinations for the Socialist-Revolutionary Party 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.

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Born
1869
Lyskovo, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast
Ethnicity
  • Jewish people
Died
1918
Berlin

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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