Catherine Breshkovsky

Catherine Breshkovsky
Екатерина Брешковская
Breshkovsky c. 1918
Born	Yekaterina Konstantinovna Verigo (1844-01-25)25 January 1844 Ivanovo, Russian Empire
Died	12 September 1934(1934-09-12) (aged 90) Prague, Czechoslovakia
Political party	Workers' Party for the Political Liberation of Russia Socialist Revolutionary Party

Yekaterina Konstantinovna Breshko-Breshkovskaya (née Verigo; born 25 January [O.S. 13 January] 1844 – 12 September 1934), better known 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.^[1]

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.^[2]