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Catherine Breshkovsky

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Also known as Ekaterina Breshko-Breshkovskai︢a︡, Yekaterina Konstantinovna Breshko-Breshkovskaya, Yekaterina Breshko-Breshkovskaya, Yekaterina Verigo

Russian politician (1844–1934)

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  • Little Grandmother of the Russian Revolution or Reminiscences and Letters of Catherine Breshkovsky

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Active from
1990-04
Active to
2000
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Key facts

Born
Yekaterina Konstantinovna Verigo , ( 1844-01-25 ) 25 January 1844, Ivanovo , Russian Empire
Died
12 September 1934 (1934-09-12) (aged 90), Prague , Czechoslovakia
Political party
Workers' Party for the Political Liberation of Russia Socialist Revolutionary Party

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Encyclopedic overview

Yekaterina Konstantinovna Breshko-Breshkovskaya (née Verigo; born 25 January [O.S. 13 January] 1844 – 12 September 1934), also known in English sources 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.

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 has been described as the "grandmother of the Russian Revolution".

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Catherine Breshkovsky” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.