1. One of the first Soviet diplomats, Vorovsky is best remembered as the victim of a May 1923 political assassination in Switzerland, where he was the official representative of the Soviet government to the Conference of Lausanne.
19 Facts About Vatslav Vorovsky
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Vatslav Vorovsky's father died when he was a year old, and he was raised by his mother.
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In 1890, Vatslav Vorovsky enrolled at the University of Moscow, where he was exposed to the ideas of political radicalism.
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Vatslav Vorovsky was arrested by the Tsarist secret police in 1897, held for two years in Taganka Prison, then exiled in 1899 to the city of Orlov.
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Vatslav Vorovsky emigrated to Europe in 1902, spending time in Italy, Germany, and Switzerland.
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Vatslav Vorovsky acted as an agent for the newspaper Iskra, founded abroad by Vladimir Lenin.
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In 1912, Vatslav Vorovsky was arrested again, this time to be deported to Vologda province, in Russia.
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In 1917, after the February Revolution in Russia, Vatslav Vorovsky was appointed to three-man Bolshevik Stockholm Bureau, along with Karl Radek and Yakov Hanecki.
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Vatslav Vorovsky was the first director of Gosizdat, the State Publishing House, from its foundation in 1919 until 1921.
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In Stockholm, Vatslav Vorovsky was the point of contact between the new Bolshevik government and representatives of the government of Germany, being introduced by Alexander Parvus to members of the Social-Democratic Party of Germany including Philipp Scheidemann during November and December 1917.
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In March 1919, Vatslav Vorovsky served as a member of the Soviet delegation to the Founding Congress of the Communist International.
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Vatslav Vorovsky was named the representative of the Russian Communist Party to the Executive Committee of the Comintern.
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Vatslav Vorovsky served as one of the secretaries of the organization, along with Angelica Balabanova.
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In July 1920, Vatslav Vorovsky resumed work as a Soviet diplomat, participating in diplomatic negotiations with Poland.
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From 1921 to 1923, Vatslav Vorovsky was the Soviet representative to Italy.
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Vatslav Vorovsky was a member of the Soviet delegation to the 1922 Genoa Conference, a group headed by Soviet Foreign Minister Georgii Chicherin.
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Vatslav Vorovsky was 51 years old at the time of his death.
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Vatslav Vorovsky is buried in Mass Grave No 7 of the Kremlin Wall Necropolis in Red Square, Moscow.
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In Moscow, on 11 May 1924, in the courtyard of a former apartment building of the First Russian Insurance Company, a bronze monument of Vatslav Vorovsky was erected under the project of sculptor Mikhail Kats.