Sofya Subbotina

Sofya Subbotina
Софья Субботина
Born	Sofya Aleksandrovna Iovskaya 1830 (1830) Moscow, Russian Empire
Died	15 February 1919(1919-02-15) (aged 88–89) Oryol, Russian Soviet Republic
Nationality	Russian
Organization	Narodnaya Volya
Movement	Narodniks
Spouse	Dmitry Subbotin ​ ​ (m. 1852; died 1855)​
Children	Evgeniia, Maria, Nadezhda

Sofya Aleksandrovna Subbotina (née Iovskaya; Russian: Софья Александровна Субботина; 1830–1919) was a Russian Narodnik revolutionary. The mother of Evgeniia, Maria and Nadezhda Subbotina, she went with her daughters to Zurich, where she joined a number of revolutionary circles. When she returned to Russia, she aided the return of fellow revolutionaries Varvara Batyushkova [ru] and Evgeniia Zavadskaya [ru], for which she was given up to the Tsarist authorities. She was charged in the Trial of the 193 and sentenced to exile, which she spent in the regions of the Volga, Urals and Siberia, her sentence extended after she was caught financially supporting other political exiles as a member of Narodnaya Volya. Upon her return from exile, she travelled through European Russia, Poland and Ukraine, where she was kept under close surveillance. After the Russian Revolution of 1917, she returned to her home in Oryol, where she died in 1919.