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2 unusual facts about Third Section of His Imperial Majesty's Own Chancellery


Arthur Benni

Arthur Benni's activities and persona caused controversy in Russia where rumours of him being a spy and a 3rd Department agent were being spread, much to his outrage and distress.

Third department

Third Section of His Imperial Majesty's Own Chancellery, a secret investigatory department in Imperial Russia


Okhrana

Along with this repression and the end of the Revolution of 1905 came a shift in the political police’s mentality; gone were the days of Nicholas I’s white-gloved moral police: post-1905 the political police feared that the Russian people were as eager to destroy them as to depose the Tsar.


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