Catherine Breshkovsky
Sign in to saveAlso known as Ekaterina Breshko-Breshkovskai︢a︡, Yekaterina Konstantinovna Breshko-Breshkovskaya, Yekaterina Breshko-Breshkovskaya, Yekaterina Verigo
Russian politician (1844–1934)
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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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Ekaterina
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Czechoslovakia
- Place of death
- Horní Počernice
- Occupation
- revolutionary
- Political party
- Socialist Revolutionary Party
- Languages spoken
- French
- Image
- Breshkovskaya.jpg
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- Commons category
- Catherine Breshkovsky
- date of birth
- 1844-01-25
- date of death
- 1934-09-12
- birth name
- Екатерина Константиновна Брешко-Брешковская
- Commons gallery
- Catherine Breshkovsky
- name in native language
- Catherine Brechkovski
- archives at
- New York Public Library Main Branch
- described by source
- Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary
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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".
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