Vatslav Vorovsky

Wazlaw Wazlawowitsch Worowski (Russian Вацлав Вацлавович Воровский; * 15 Oktoberjul / October 27 1871greg in Moscow, .. † May 10, 1923 in Lausanne) was a Soviet ambassador.

Life

He was born into a family with a Polish immigrant background and attended a school of the Lutheran Church. At school, he wrote tsar hostile poems. From 1890 to 1891 studied in Moscow Physics and Mathematics and trowel from at student meetings against the regime of the Tsar.

1917 led Worowski together with Jakub Ganezki and Karl Radek, the diplomatic mission of the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Russia in Stockholm, where he organized the management of funding of the October Revolution with Heinrich Bockelmann. So decreed the reigning after the revolution as central bank chief and deputy finance Ganezki even after the nationalization of multinational companies, as the governments of the Entente an embargo against the ruling by the Soviets, Russia imposed, hard currency.

As far as the Soviets were recognized as a government, he was in 1919 briefly the ambassador to Scandinavia. After Worowski was from Stockholm departed, the Swedish authorities confiscated 10 million Swedish crowns on accounts of companies for which he was zeichnungsberechtig and nearly 1.8 million crowns on personal accounts of Worowski at Swedish banks. In addition, he acted under different names as a front man for the foreign trade of the outlawed Soviets. From 1919 he was in Russia, where he is regarded as one of the initiators of the persecution of the Russian Orthodox Church and led the Gosisdat.

In 1922 he took part in the negotiations on the Treaty of Rapallo in Genoa and in 1923 was a member of the Soviet delegation of observers to the negotiations on the Treaty of Lausanne. ( † 1947 * 1896 in Saint Petersburg ) in the restaurant Cecile on the Soviet delegation at dinner on 10 May 1923, the White Guard under Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel, Moritz Conradi shot. With the assassination of public workers Lvovitch Arens and the Secretary Maxim Diwilkowski were injured and killed Worowski. Maurice Conradi and Arkady Polunin were defended in a process for Conradi Affair of Théodore Aubert and acquitted on 16 November 1923.