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Vera Zasulich
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Russian revolutionary, editor (1849-1919)
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Vera Ivanovna Zasulich was a Russian writer, journalist, politician, and editor. Born in 1849, she was a member of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party and participated in the 2nd Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party. She also worked as a Menshevik. Her native language was Russian, and she used the pseudonym А. Булыгина.
Zasulich authored several works, including Posli︠e︡dni︠a︡i︠a︡ karta t︠s︡arizma, Desi︠a︡tili︠e︡tīe Morozovskoĭ stachki, Sot︠s︡īalizm v I︠A︡ponīi, Dmitriĭ Aleksandrovich Klement︠s︡, and Revoli︠u︡t︠s︡ionery iz burzhuaznoĭ sredy. She was described by sources such as Nordisk familjebok and the Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary. She died in 1919 in Saint Petersburg and is buried at Volkovo Cemetery Writer's Walkways.
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It sits within the topics 1849 births, 1919 deaths and 19th-century nobility from the Russian Empire.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1849
- Died
- 1919
- Works
- 9
Top works
- Posli︠e︡dni︠a︡i︠a︡ karta t︠s︡arizma
- Desi︠a︡tili︠e︡tīe Morozovskoĭ stachki
- Sot︠s︡īalizm v I︠A︡ponīi
- Dmitriĭ Aleksandrovich Klement︠s︡
- Revoli︠u︡t︠s︡ionery iz burzhuaznoĭ sredy
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1849-08-08 ) 8 August 1849, Mikhaylovka, Smolensk Governorate , Russian Empire
- Died
- 8 May 1919 (1919-05-08) (aged 69), Petrograd , Russian Soviet Republic
- Education
- Kharkov University
- Known for
- Attempted assassination of Fyodor Trepov and co-founding the Emancipation of Labour group
- Political party
- Russian Social Democratic Labor Party ( Mensheviks )
- Movement
- Populism Marxism Menshevism
- Partner
- Lev Deich
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Vera
- Family name
- Zasulich
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
- Place of death
- Saint Petersburg
- Occupation
- revolutionary
- Political party
- Russian Social Democratic Labour Party
- Languages spoken
- Russian
- Native language
- Russian
- Field of work
- Mensheviks
- Image
- Zasulich-vera.jpg
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- place of burial
- Volkovo Cemetery Writer's Walkways
- date of birth
- 1849-07-27
- date of death
- 1919-01-01
- described by source
- Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary
- Commons category
- Vera Zasulich
- described at URL
- www.biografiasyvidas.com/biografia/z/zassulich.htm
- pseudonym
- А. Булыгина
- P8168
- The Peony Pavilion
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Encyclopedic overview
Vera Ivanovna Zasulich (Russian: Ве́ра Ива́новна Засу́лич; 8 August [O.S. 27 July] 1849 – 8 May 1919) was a Russian revolutionary and socialist activist. Born into impoverished nobility, Zasulich became involved in radical politics in the late 1860s. In 1878, she gained international renown for attempting to assassinate Fyodor Trepov, the governor of St. Petersburg, to protest his abuse of a political prisoner. In a high-profile case that highlighted the unpopularity of the tsarist government, a sympathetic jury acquitted her.
To avoid re-arrest, Zasulich fled to Western Europe, where she became a key figure in the populist Black Repartition movement. Disillusioned with terrorism as a revolutionary tactic, she converted to Marxism and in 1883 co-founded the Emancipation of Labour group, the first Russian Marxist organization, with Georgi Plekhanov and Pavel Axelrod. The group struggled for years in exile, facing poverty, isolation, and official repression, but produced foundational works of Russian Marxism.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Vera Zasulich” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.