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    Vera Nikolayevna Figner Filippova (Russian: Вера Николаевна Фигнер Филиппова; 7 July [O.S. 25 June] 1852 – 25 June 1942) was a Russian revolutionary and...
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  • surname Figner may refer to: Aleksandr Figner (1787—1813), Russian colonel Vera Figner (1852–1942), Russian revolutionary Nikolay and Medea Figner, Russian...
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    Nikolai Kibalchich. The night before the attack, Perovskaya along with Vera Figner (also one of seven women on the Executive Committee) helped assemble...
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  • Vera (Cyrillic: Вера: Véra, "faith") is a female given name of Slavic origin, and by folk etymology it has also been explained as Latin vera meaning "true"...
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    Nikolaevna Figner (1853–1920), was a Russian revolutionary and a prominent member of the Narodniks. She was the sister of Vera Figner. V. N. Figner, Autobiografia...
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    Nikolay Figner (1857–1918), lyric tenor, and Medea Figner (1859–1952), mezzo-soprano, later soprano, were a husband-and-wife team of opera singers active...
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    Memoirs of a Revolutionist is the memoir of Vera Figner, a member of the Narodnaya Volya who helped plan the assassination of Alexander II. It was first...
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    their sentences commuted to life imprisonment. They included two women, Vera Figner and Lyudmila Volkenstein. All were to be denied any kind of contact with...
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    succeeded by the Moscow Circle, made up of a young women's group around Vera Figner and a number of Georgian nationalists that had found common cause with...
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    Smolensky (1848–1909), Russian choir director and scholar of ancient Vera Figner (1852–1942), Russian revolutionary and narodnik Evgeny Chirikov (1864–1932)...
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  • (October 6–10), 1884 in Saint Petersburg's district military court. Vera Figner - the last member of the Executive Committee of Narodnaya Volya to remain...
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    the time and latter founder of the Marx-Engels Institute Revolutionary Vera Figner, a well-known political activist. Decembrists: initial verdict was 16...
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    Committee of the SR Party, who appointed three veteran revolutionaries (Vera Figner, German Lopatin and Prince Kropotkin) to a court of inquiry, which held...
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  • in the revolutionary movement, like Vladimir Vilensky (Sibiryakov), Vera Figner, Lev Deich, Nikolai Tyutchev, Felix Kon, Mikhail Frolenko, Anna Yakimova-Dikovskaya...
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    Leader since 17 January 1912 Seats won 2082 127 2   Fourth party Fifth party   Leader Georgiy Laskhishvili Vera Figner Party SSPSP Anarchists Seats won 2 1...
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    she had seven siblings. There has been confusion about her full name. Vera Figner (in her memoirs, At Women's Katorga), stated that Kaplan's original name...
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  • Mikhailov, Andrei Zhelyabov (1851–1881), Sophia Perovskaya (1853–1881), Vera Figner (1852–1942), Nikolai Morozov (1854–1946), Mikhail Frolenko (1848–1938)...
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  • Quatre femmes terroristes contre le tsar, by Vera Zassoulitch, Olga Loubatovitch, Élisabeth Kovalskaïa, Vera Figner, texts collected and presented by Christine...
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    and his government that reduced the nationwide repressions and saved Vera Figner from the gallows and Chernyshevsky from exile.[citation needed] In 1884...
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    left by populist leader Vera Figner, who attended the Rodionovsky Institute for Noble Girls in Kazan from 1863 until 1869. Figner found the educational...
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    Henry (England, 1951), Caesarina Kona Makhoere (South Africa, 1976-82), Vera Figner (Russia, 1883–1904), Béatrice Saubin (Malaysia, 1992-90), Precious Bedell...
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    including Georgi Plekhanov, Alexander Mikhailov, Andrei Zhelyabov, Vera Figner, Sophia Perovskaya, Nikolai Morozov, Mikhail Frolenko and Osip Aptekman...
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    the peasants by offering medical advice and education. They included Vera Figner, who agreed that the Russian authorities would never allow them to continue...
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    geological maps and studies on mineralogy. According to his long-time friend Vera Figner, for his first sketches Łukaszewicz used the soot of his lamp and a blue...
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    Vera Figner. When she was sent by the organisation to Odesa, she suggested that her younger sister, Yevgenia, should take her room. Yevgenia Figner volunteered...
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  • Brotherhood". After a number of revolutionaries were arrested, including Vera Figner, she moved through Saratov and Kharkiv, before finally fleeing abroad...
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  • radicals were set free, many of whom were hardened by their time in prison. Vera Figner, whose sister Lyida was one of those arrested, described the atmosphere...
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  • spirit” and owned publications written by the likes of Peter Kropotkin, Vera Figner, and Sergey Stepnyak-Kravchinsky, which she credits for her “entire moral...
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  • Ruth Fischer. "I read about the Russian Revolution, about Lenin and Vera Figner, who became my idol; and I learned to love the idea of socialism the...
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