Yevno Azef

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In this name that follows East Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Fishelevich and the family name is Azef.
Yevno Azef
Евно Азеф
Born1869 (1869)
Lyskava, Russian Empire
Died24 April 1918(1918-04-24) (aged 48–49)
Berlin, German Empire

Yevno Fishelevich Azef (born Yevgeny Filippovich Azef; 1869 – 24 April 1918) was a Russian socialist revolutionary who also operated as a double agent and agent provocateur. He worked as both an organiser of assassinations for the Socialist Revolutionary Party and a police spy for the Okhrana, the Russian Empire's secret police. He rose through the ranks to become the leader of the Socialist Revolutionary Party's terrorist branch, the SR Combat Organization, from 1904 to 1908.

After the revolutionary Vladimir Burtsev unmasked his activity in 1909, Azef fled to Germany, where he died in 1918.

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