Editing Yevno Azef (section)

== Early life ==
Yevno Fishelevich Azef was born in [[Pruzhany district|Lyskava]] (now [[Brest Region]], [[Belarus]]) in 1869, the second of seven children of a  poor [[Jew]]ish tailor. His father moved to Rostov with the family when Yevno was five and opened a drapery but barely made enough money to get his children through school.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Nicolaievsky|first1=Boris (translated by George Reavy)|title=Aseff: the Russian Judas|date=1934|publisher=Hurst & Blackett|location=London|pages=32–33}}</ref> After leaving school around 1890, Azef worked as a journalist and a traveling salesman. In 1892, the police suspected him of distributing revolutionary literature. To avoid arrest, he [[embezzlement|embezzled]] 800 [[Russian ruble|rubles]] and fled to [[Germany]] to first [[Karlsruhe]] and then [[Darmstadt]]. There, he studied to become an electrical engineer and joined a group of Russian social democrats.