Maria Spiridonova
✓ Source-basedrisingRussian terrorist and politician (1884-1941)
Maria Alexandrovna Spiridonova was a Narodnik-inspired Russian revolutionary. In 1906, as a novice member of a local combat group of the Tambov Socialists-Revolutionaries (SRs), she assassinated Gavriil Luzhenovsky, a Tsarist security official.
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Spiridonova before 1906
Spiridonova and Grigory Gershuni, founder of the SR Combat Organization, in Akatuy, 1906
The Shesterka ("Six") photographed at the Omsk station during their triumphal transfer to Siberia (Spiridonova is the first on the left in the foreground)
The Shesterka ("Six") in exile at Akatuy (Spiridonova is the first on the left)
Spiridonova at work as a Left SR leader
Spiridonova's prison mugshot, c. 1937In their orbit 1
Politicians born in the 1880s 6
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Maria Alexandrovna Spiridonova was a Narodnik-inspired Russian revolutionary. In 1906, as a novice member of a local combat group of the Tambov Socialists-Revolutionaries (SRs), she assassinated Gavriil Luzhenovsky, a Tsarist security official. Her subsequent abuse by police earned her enormous popularity with the opponents of Tsarism throughout the empire and even abroad.
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