Catherine Breshkovsky
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Yekaterina Konstantinovna Breshko-Breshkovskaya (née Verigo; born 25 January [O.S. 13 January] 1844 – 12 September 1934), better known as Catherine Breshkovsky, was a major figure in the Russian socialist movement, a Narodnik, and later one of the founders of the Socialist Revolutionary Party. She has been described as Russia's first female political prisoner.[1]
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Екатерина Брешковская | |
Born | Yekaterina Konstantinovna Verigo (1844-01-25)25 January 1844 |
Died | 12 September 1934(1934-09-12) (aged 90) |
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She spent over four decades in prison and Siberian exile for peaceful opposition to Tsarism, acquiring, in her latter years, international stature as a political prisoner. Also popularly known as 'babushka', Breshkovsky was the grandmother of the Russian Revolution.[2]