Vera Nikolayevna Figner Filippova was a prominent Russian revolutionary political activist.
Born in Kazan Governorate, Russian Empire, into a noble family of German and Russian descent, Figner was a leader of the clandestine Narodnaya Volya (People's Will) group, which advocated the use of terror to achieve a revolutionary overthrow of the government, Figner was a participant in planning the successful Assassination of Alexander II of Russia in 1881.
Figner was later arrested and spent 20 months in solitary confinement prior to trial, at which she was sentenced to death. The sentence was subsequently commuted and Figner was imprisoned in the Shlisselburg Fortress for 20 years before being sent into internal exile.
Figner gained international fame in large part because of the widely translated memoir of her experiences. She was treated as a heroic icon of revolutionary sacrifice after the February Revolution in 1917 and was a popular public speaker during that year. Figner later became prominent in the Society of Former Political Prisoners and Exiles in the Soviet Union until its dissolution in 1935.
Vera Figner
×CloseRussian political activist (1852-1942)
Born | 7 July [O.S. 25 June] 1852 |
Died | 25 June 1942 |
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Vera Figner
×CloseRussian political activist (1852-1942)
Born | 7 July [O.S. 25 June] 1852 |
Died | 25 June 1942 |
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Biography, Nihilism, Prisoners, Shlisselʹ burgskai︠a︡ ti︠u︡rʹma, Shlisselʹburgskai︠a︡ ti︠u︡rʹma, Socialists, Women prisoners, Women revolutionaries, Women socialistsPeople
Vera Figner (1852-1942)ID Numbers
- OLID: OL4386076A
- ISNI: 0000000109176641
- VIAF: 76443832
- Wikidata: Q266783
- Inventaire.io: wd:Q266783
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Alternative names
- Вера Фигнер
- Vera Figner
- Vera Nikolaevna Figner
- V|i|era Nikolaevna Figner
- Ве́ра Никола́евна Фи́гнер Фили́ппова
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