Elisabeth Dmitrieff
Russian feminist · Russia · On the map · Activists · Lived 1851 to 1918 · aged 67
Elisabeth Dmitrieff was a Russian revolutionary and feminist activist. The illegitimate daughter of a Russian aristocrat and a German nurse, she had a comfortable upbringing but was marginalized within the Russian aristocracy due to the circumstances of her birth, leading to her interest in Marxism and the radical...
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Modest Mussorgsky, one of Dmitrieff's teachers, in 1865
Dmitrieff read the magazine Russkoye Slovo (Русское слово).
Session of the Geneva section of the International Workingmen's Association at the former Temple Unique in Geneva, between 1869 and 1875
Geneva's Temple Unique around 1870, according to a postcard. The Geneva sessions of the International took place here.
Cover page of the novel What Is to Be Done? by Nikolay Chernyshevsky, which had a major influence on Dmitrieff
Paris Commune: "Call to Female Workers" of 18 May 1871, signed by Dmitrieff, among others
Letter sent by Dmitrieff on 24 April 1871 to Hermann Jung, possibly intended for Karl MarxAbout this person
The illegitimate daughter of a Russian aristocrat and a German nurse, she had a comfortable upbringing but was marginalized within the Russian aristocracy due to the circumstances of her birth, leading to her interest in Marxism and the radical ideas of Nikolay Chernyshevsky. She entered into a marriage of convenience with Mikhail Tomanovski, a colonel who had retired early due to illness, in order to access her inheritance, which she used to fund revolutionary causes such as the Russian-language journal Narodnoye delo. Her money and married status allowed her to leave Russia and study in Geneva, where she participated in founding the Geneva section of the International Workingmen's Association. Sent by the Geneva section as an envoy to London, she became close to Karl Marx and his daughter Jenny.
