Yevno Azef
Yevno Azef | |
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| Born | 1869 Lyskava, Russian Empire |
| Died | April 24, 1918 (aged 48–49) Berlin, German Empire |
Yevno Fishelevich (Yevgeny Filippovich) Azef (Russian: Е́вно Фи́шелевич (Евге́ний Фили́ппович) А́зеф; 1869–1918) 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.