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Born in Latvia, he lived in London for a time after the 1905 Revolution. He and four others were arrested and put on trial in the aftermath of the Sidney Street Siege that followed a failed jewelry store robbery at Houndsditch. They were acquitted, much to the dismay of the then Home Secretary Winston Churchill.
He married Maisie Freeman, the daughter of a London banker, and they had a daughter. He returned to Russia in May 1917 and his wife later divorced him. He participated in the events of the Russian Revolution and joined the Cheka.
In later life he lived in TashkentTashkent Toshkent or in Uzbek, #x301 in Russian), the current capital of Uzbekistan, has in the past been called Chach Shash and Binkent''. For centuries it was an important stop on the trade route (the Silk Road) from Asia into Europe. Due to the destruc and perished in the Great PurgeThe Great Purge is the name given to the campaigns of repression in the Soviet Union during the late 1930s which included a purge of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. The purge was motivated by the desire on the part of the leadership to remove dis in 1938.