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Jan 25, 1844 Vitebsk, Belarus Died on 12 Sep 1934 (aged 90)
Russian politician
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About Catherine Breshkovsky
- Catherine Breshkovsky (real name Yekaterina Konstantinovna Breshko-Breshkovskaya (born Verigo), Russian: ????????? ?????????????? ??????-???????????; born 25 January (13 January old style) 1844 – 12 September 1934).
- 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.
- She spent over four decades in prison and Siberian exile for peaceful opposition to Tsarism, acquiring, in her latter years, international stature as a political prisoner.
- Also popularly known as Babushka, the grandmother of the Russian Revolution.
