Russian revolutionary; an important leader of the C.P.S.U. (Bolshevik). Born on September 11, 1877, to a small landlord aristocratic family in the small manor of Dzerzhinovo, Ivyanets County, Wilno province (now Valozhyn District, Minsk), in the kingdom of Poland. In August 1887, he entered a boarding school in Wilno. In the autumn of 1895, he joined the Lithuanian Social-Democratic Party. In April 1896, he voluntarily gave up the Wilno boarding school and embarked on the road of professional revolutionary work…
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