• Thumbnail for Sophia Perovskaya
    Sophia Lvovna Perovskaya (Russian: Со́фья Льво́вна Перо́вская; 13 September [O.S. 1 September] 1853  – 15 April [O.S. 3 April] 1881) was a Russian revolutionary...
    14 KB (1,610 words) - 18:01, 3 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Assassination of Alexander II of Russia
    chiefly by Andrei Zhelyabov. Of the four assassins coordinated by Sophia Perovskaya, two of them actually committed the deed. One assassin, Nikolai Rysakov...
    17 KB (2,050 words) - 20:50, 16 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Andrei Zhelyabov
    April 3, 1881, with the rest of the terrorists, including his wife Sophia Perovskaya. In admiration of Zhelyabov's dedication to his revolutionary cause...
    4 KB (431 words) - 12:25, 12 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sophia (given name)
    Sophia, also spelled Sofia, is a feminine given name, from Greek Σοφία, Sophía, "Wisdom". Other forms include Sophie, Sophy, and Sofie. The given name...
    21 KB (2,400 words) - 17:39, 3 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Maria Trubnikova
    illegal societies at her house, and once helped hide the revolutionary Sophia Perovskaya (who coordinated the assassination of Alexander II). By 1878, her...
    18 KB (2,055 words) - 20:22, 27 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Going to the People
    organised a show trial. In the end, 90 of the defendants, including Sophia Perovskaya, were acquitted. The others were sentenced to a variety of different...
    29 KB (3,465 words) - 00:01, 3 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pervomartovtsy
    main organizer. After his arrest on February 27, he was replaced by Sophia Perovskaya.[citation needed] Alexander II was killed on March 1, 1881 by a bomb...
    4 KB (389 words) - 04:56, 27 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Nikolai Rysakov
    committed suicide after firing several shots at the police. Mikhailov, Sophia Perovskaya, and Kibalchich were also subsequently captured. Rysakov established...
    12 KB (1,653 words) - 02:08, 7 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Alexey Razumovsky (born 1748)
    Antony Pogorelsky, grandfather of Alexey Tolstoy, great–grandfather of Sophia Perovskaya. The eldest son of Count Kirill Razumovsky, the last Hetman of the...
    15 KB (1,346 words) - 04:57, 17 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Land and Liberty (Russia)
    Dmitry Lizogub, later Sergey Stepnyak-Kravchinsky, Nikolai Morozov, Sophia Perovskaya, Lev Tikhomirov and Nikolai Tyutchev. In total, the organization consisted...
    16 KB (1,562 words) - 02:25, 2 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for The Master and Margarita
    Russian psychologist and translator, Hella was inspired by Sophia Perovskaya. Perovskaya was a member of the socialist revolutionary organization named...
    118 KB (14,172 words) - 08:12, 8 September 2024
  • among others Alexander Mikhailov, Andrei Zhelyabov (1851–1881), Sophia Perovskaya (1853–1881), Vera Figner (1852–1942), Nikolai Morozov (1854–1946)...
    28 KB (3,192 words) - 22:56, 28 July 2024
  • Perovsky (redirect from Perovskaya)
    (feminine: Perovskaya) is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Nikolay Perovsky (1785–1858), Russian politician Sophia Perovskaya (1853–1881)...
    403 bytes (84 words) - 02:12, 13 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Ignacy Hryniewiecki
    Telezhnaya Street. At 9–10 AM, Sophia Perovskaya and Kibalchich each brought two missiles; the men would have one apiece. Perovskaya would later relate that...
    18 KB (2,234 words) - 07:48, 29 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Nikolai Sablin
    Sabin joined the plot to kill Alexander II. Others involved included Sophia Perovskaya, Andrei Zhelyabov, Hesya Helfman, Ignaty Grinevitsky, Nikolai Kibalchich...
    2 KB (188 words) - 22:58, 27 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of political parties in Russia
    Большое общество пропаганды Tchaikovtsy Чайковцы Nikolai Tchaikovsky Sophia Perovskaya Mark Natanson Narodism Revolutionary socialism 1871–1874 Bashenists...
    156 KB (1,539 words) - 18:36, 1 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Circle of Tchaikovsky
    merged with a female self-education circle of Alexandra Kornilova and Sophia Perovskaya. Soon, they were joined by Peter Kropotkin, Sergei Stepnyak-Kravchinsky...
    10 KB (868 words) - 19:45, 8 September 2024
  • died a few hours afterwards. The conspirators Nikolai Kibalchich, Sophia Perovskaya, Nikolai Rysakov, Timofey Mikhailov, and Andrei Zhelyabov were all...
    71 KB (8,185 words) - 13:34, 3 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for 1881
    the revolutionary socialist group Narodnaya Volya coordinated by Sophia Perovskaya but falsely blamed upon Russian Jews. He is succeeded by his son,...
    31 KB (3,251 words) - 18:28, 30 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Winter Palace
    "unsmiling fanatic", Andrei Zhelyabov, and his mistress Sophia Perovskaya, who later became his wife. Perovskaya, the daughter of a former Governor of Saint Petersburg...
    84 KB (10,535 words) - 05:55, 28 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Nikolai Kibalchich
    Mikhailov, Perovskaya, Zhelyabov and Rysakov were executed after him. Thus, Kibalchich and other Narodnaya Volya plotters including Sophia Perovskaya, Andrei...
    18 KB (1,854 words) - 18:01, 24 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ivan Yemelyanov
    assassination of Tsar Alexander II. On 13 March [1 March, Old Style], when Sophia Perovskaya signaled the Emperor's approach to the road alongside the Catherine...
    5 KB (599 words) - 06:03, 1 January 2024
  • Shadd, "shook up the abolitionist movement", published June 7, 2018 Sophia Perovskaya, "the Russian icon who was hanged for killing a czar", published May...
    26 KB (2,953 words) - 23:43, 6 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Catherine Breshkovsky
    labour), whereas other female defendants, including the future regicide Sophia Perovskaya, were acquitted. She was, reputedly, the first woman in Russia sentenced...
    17 KB (2,043 words) - 13:28, 20 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Nikolay Perovsky
    of Feodosia, eldest son of Count Alexey Razumovsky, grandfather of Sophia Perovskaya. Perovsky was brought up in the house of his aunt Natalya Zagryazhskaya...
    6 KB (495 words) - 11:01, 6 June 2024
  • Rüştü Pasha (1926) conspiracy to assassinate Mustafa Kemal Pasha Sophia Perovskaya (1881) assassination of Alexander II Peter, son of Töre (1198) assassination...
    68 KB (6,944 words) - 13:53, 17 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Concordia Antarova
    the first cousin of Arkady Vladimirovich Tyrkov and the niece of Sophia Perovskaya, two of the members of Narodnaya Volya, who had attempted to assassinate...
    13 KB (1,211 words) - 18:32, 30 July 2023
  • and Sophia Perovskaya. Perovskaya led the squad who killed the Tsar, after several failed attempts, on 13 March 1881 (1 March old style). Perovskaya, Zhelyabov...
    6 KB (727 words) - 13:12, 6 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Timofey Mikhailov
    was transported to the Semenovsky Regiment seated in a cart with Sophia Perovskaya and Nikolai Kibalchich. On the way, he kept bowing to people, as was...
    8 KB (959 words) - 02:16, 7 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Kanno Sugako
    foreign enemies. Kanno was enthused about the scheme, hoping to emulate Sophia Perovskaya, a participant in the assassination of Tsar Alexander II. Kotoku was...
    30 KB (3,940 words) - 04:30, 25 May 2024