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    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...
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    chiefly by Andrei Zhelyabov. Of the four assassins coordinated by Sophia Perovskaya, two actually committed the deed. One assassin, Nikolai Rysakov, threw...
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    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...
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    April 3, 1881, with the rest of the terrorists, including his wife Sophia Perovskaya. In admiration of Zhelyabov's dedication to his revolutionary cause...
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    Sophia, also spelled Sofia, is a feminine given name, from Greek Σοφία, Sophía, "Wisdom". Other forms include Sophie, Sophy, and Sofie. The given name...
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    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...
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    committed suicide after firing several shots at the police. Mikhailov, Sophia Perovskaya, and Kibalchich were also subsequently captured. Rysakov established...
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    Antony Pogorelsky, grandfather of Alexey Tolstoy, great–grandfather of Sophia Perovskaya. The eldest son of Count Kirill Razumovsky, the last Hetman of the...
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    Dmitry Lizogub, later Sergey Stepnyak-Kravchinsky, Nikolai Morozov, Sophia Perovskaya, Lev Tikhomirov and Nikolai Tyutchev. In total, the organization consisted...
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    Russian psychologist and translator, Hella was inspired by Sophia Perovskaya. Perovskaya was a member of the socialist revolutionary organization named...
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  • among others Alexander Mikhailov, Andrei Zhelyabov (1851–1881), Sophia Perovskaya (1853–1881), Vera Figner (1852–1942), Nikolai Morozov (1854–1946)...
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  • 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)...
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    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...
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    Большое общество пропаганды Tchaikovtsy Чайковцы Nikolai Tchaikovsky Sophia Perovskaya Mark Natanson Narodism Revolutionary socialism 1871–1874 Bashenists...
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    Sabin joined the plot to kill Alexander II. Others involved included Sophia Perovskaya, Andrei Zhelyabov, Hesya Helfman, Ignaty Grinevitsky, Nikolai Kibalchich...
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    labour), whereas other female defendants, including the future regicide Sophia Perovskaya, were acquitted. She was, reputedly, the first woman in Russia sentenced...
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  • died a few hours afterwards. The conspirators Nikolai Kibalchich, Sophia Perovskaya, Nikolai Rysakov, Timofey Mikhailov, and Andrei Zhelyabov were all...
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    the revolutionary socialist group Narodnaya Volya coordinated by Sophia Perovskaya but falsely blamed upon Russian Jews. He is succeeded by his son,...
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  • Nininger (1887–1986), American meteoriticist MPC · 2421 2422 Perovskaya 1968 HK1 Sophia Perovskaya (1853–1881), Russian revolutionary DMP · 2422 2423 Ibarruri...
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    merged with a female self-education circle of Alexandra Kornilova and Sophia Perovskaya. Soon, they were joined by Peter Kropotkin, Sergei Stepnyak-Kravchinsky...
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    "unsmiling fanatic", Andrei Zhelyabov, and his mistress Sophia Perovskaya, who later became his wife. Perovskaya, the daughter of a former Governor of Saint Petersburg...
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    Mikhailov, Perovskaya, Zhelyabov and Rysakov were executed after him. Thus, Kibalchich and other Narodnaya Volya plotters including Sophia Perovskaya, Andrei...
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    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...
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  • Rüştü Pasha (1926) conspiracy to assassinate Mustafa Kemal Pasha Sophia Perovskaya (1881) assassination of Alexander II Peter, son of Töre (1198) assassination...
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    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...
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    as a college for young women seeking education. In 1869, she met Sophia Perovskaya and began attending her women's meeting, both joining Zemlya i volya...
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    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...
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    illegal societies at her house, and once helped hide the revolutionary Sophia Perovskaya (who coordinated the assassination of Alexander II). By 1878, her...
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    of Feodosia, eldest son of Count Alexey Razumovsky, grandfather of Sophia Perovskaya. Perovsky was brought up in the house of his aunt Natalya Zagryazhskaya...
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  • "Fiction Monthly" (小说月报). Ding Ling named the main character after Sofia Perovskaya, a Russian revolutionary who was executed for orchestrating the assassination...
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