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Catherine Breshkovsky

1844 - 1934

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Yekaterina Konstantinovna Breshko-Breshkovskaya (née Verigo; born 25 January [O.S. 13 January] 1844 – 12 September 1934), also known in English sources as Catherine Breshkovsky, was 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', Breshkovsky was the grandmother of the Russian Revolution. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Catherine Breshkovsky is the 302nd most popular social activist (up from 344th in 2019), the 918th most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,160th in 2019) and the 21st most popular Russian Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Catherine Breshkovsky ranks 302 out of 840. Before her are Hector Hodler, Cassivellaunus, Yuri Levitan, Efua Dorkenoo, Naziha al-Dulaimi, and Harilal Gandhi. After her are Lucio Urtubia, Louise Bryant, Anna Hazare, Johannes Kleiman, Túpac Katari, and Khudiram Bose.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1844, Catherine Breshkovsky ranks 55. Before her are Lujo Brentano, Wilhelm Leibl, Édouard Branly, Gyula Benczúr, Princess Françoise of Orléans, and Carl Hagenbeck. After her are Ivan Yarkovsky, Charles Augustus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Béhanzin, Tivadar Puskás, Robert Themptander, and Cassius Marcellus Coolidge. Among people deceased in 1934, Catherine Breshkovsky ranks 78. Before her are Prince Sixtus of Bourbon-Parma, Isaac Israëls, Carl Charlier, Pablo Gargallo, Oskar von Hutier, and Carlos Chagas. After her are Otakar Ševčík, Roger Fry, François Coty, Maria Zankovetska, James Mark Baldwin, and João do Canto e Castro.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Catherine Breshkovsky ranks 918 out of 3,761. Before her are Yuri Levitan (1914), Dmitry Peskov (1967), Ivan Sidorenko (1919), Anatoly Filipchenko (1928), Konstantin of Rostov (1185), and Noor Inayat Khan (1914). After her are Rudolf Barshai (1924), Dmitry Utkin (1970), Hyacinth (1777), Konstantin Somov (1869), Zinaida Yusupova (1861), and Princess Maria Maximilianovna of Leuchtenberg (1841).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Russia

Among social activists born in Russia, Catherine Breshkovsky ranks 21. Before her are Sophia Perovskaya (1853), Sergey Taboritsky (1897), Grigory Mikhaylovich Semyonov (1890), Zinaida Portnova (1926), Vera Figner (1852), and Yuri Levitan (1914). After her are Natalya Estemirova (1958), Pavel Pestel (1793), Feodosia Morozova (1632), Alexander Antonov (1889), Nikolai Kuznetsov (1911), and Anatoly Marchenko (1938).

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