Maria Spiridonova
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Russian terrorist and politician (1884-1941)
Key facts
- Chairman
- Yakov Sverdlov
- Preceded by
- Position established
- Succeeded by
- Position abolished
- Constituency
- Vladimir
- Born
- Maria Alexandrovna Spiridonova , ( 1884-10-16 ) 16 October 1884, Tambov , Tambov Governorate , Russian Empire
- Died
- 11 September 1941 (1941-09-11) (aged 56), Oryol , Oryol Oblast , Russian SFSR , Soviet Union
- Party
- Socialist Revolutionary Party (1905–1917), Left Socialist-Revolutionaries (1917–1921)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Mariya
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Soviet Union
- Place of birth
- Tambov
- Place of death
- Oryol
- Occupation
- politician
- Political party
- Socialist Revolutionary Party
- Languages spoken
- Russian
- Image
- MarijaSpiridonova.jpg
- Convicted of
- murder
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- date of birth
- 1884-10-16
- date of death
- 1941-09-11
- Commons category
- Maria Spiridonova
- cause of death
- gunshot wound
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Encyclopedic overview
Maria Alexandrovna Spiridonova (Russian: Мария Александровна Спиридонова; 16 October 1884 – 11 September 1941) was a Narodnik-inspired Russian revolutionary. In 1906, as a novice member of a local combat group of the Tambov Socialists-Revolutionaries (SRs), she assassinated Gavriil Luzhenovsky, a Tsarist security official. Her subsequent abuse by police earned her enormous popularity with the opponents of Tsarism throughout the empire and even abroad.
After spending over 11 years in Siberian prisons she was freed after the February Revolution of 1917, and returned to European Russia as a heroine of the destitute, and especially of the peasants. According to G.D.H. Cole, she was, along with Alexandra Kollontai, one of the most prominent women leaders during the Russian Revolution, leading the Left Socialist-Revolutionaries to initially side with Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks, and then to break with them.
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