Catherine Breshkovsky

✶January 25, 1844

†September 12, 1934

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About their life

Yekaterina Konstantinovna Breshko-Breshkovskaya, 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.

Russian politician (1844–1934)

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Biography from the article Catherine Breshkovsky on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.