Maria Nikolaevna Olovennikova

Maria Nikolaevna Olovennikova was a Russian Narodnik revolutionary. Born into a noble family, she became a revolutionary socialist in the 1870s, participating in the activities of Zemlya i Volya and co-founding Narodnaya Volya. A convinced Jacobin, she believed in the need for a revolutionary organisation to overthrow the Tsarist autocracy and establish a centralised government that could direct a political and social revolution. After the assassination of Alexander II of Russia, she moved abroad to France and continued her activism with the Narodniks in exile. She suffered from ill health throughout the 1880s and 1890s, leading to her death in 1898.