Anastasia Bitsenko

Anastasia Bitsenko
Born
Anastasia Alekseevna Kameristaya[1]

10 November 1875
Died16 June 1938 (aged 62)
NationalityRussian
OccupationRevolutionary
Political partySocial Revolutionary Party
Left Socialist Revolutionary Party
Party of Revolutionary Communism
Russian Communist Party

Anastasia Alekseevna Bitsenko, née Kameristaya[1] (Russian: Анастасия Алексеевна Биценко, née Камeристая; 10 November 1875 – 16 June 1938) was a Narodnik-inspired, later Communist, Russian revolutionary. As a member of a socialist revolutionary (SR) flying combat detachment, she came to fame for assassinating the former Russian Minister of War Viktor Sakharov in 1905. After being held in detention for over 11 years, she was freed during the February Revolution and joined the Left Socialist-Revolutionaries. For her achievements, the party designated her as their representative within the Soviet delegation for the German-Russian peace negotiations in World War I, which resulted in the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. She eventually sided with the Soviet regime for good, adhering to the Communist ideology.

  1. ^ a b Her maiden name is given according to the spelling adopted by Boniece (2010b, p. 180), which is also as recorded in the 1927 edition of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (Большая советская энцйклопедия). According to the Russian Wikipedia article, however, it is spelt instead "Kamoristaya" (Камористая), and sometimes also "Kamerita" (Камеритая) or "Kamerinskaya" (Камеринская); Maxwell spells it "Kameristkaya" (1990, p. 200).
  2. ^ Shots in Moscow (2004), p. 53.

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