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	Sophia Lvovna Perovskaya - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Daughter of a former military governor of St.Petersburg, Perovskaya entered the Alarchinsky University for Women in 1869.
		In January of 1874, she was arrested and placed in the Petropavlovskaya fortress in connection with the Trial of 193.
		Sophia Perovskaya was the first woman in Russia executed in connection with a political trial.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sophia_Perovskaya (400 words)

	Sophia - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Sophia is a common name that comes from the Greek word σοφία ("wisdom"), that may refer to:
		Sophia Dorothea of Hanover, granddaughter of Sophia of Hanover: daughter of Sophia Dorothea of Celle
		Princess Augusta Sophia of the United Kingdom, second daughter of King George III
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Sophia (294 words)

	Sophia Perovskaya
		She was short and strongly built, with close-cropped hair, and she wore an outfit that seemed almost to have the become the uniform for the advocates of the woman question: a Russian blouse, cinched with a leather belt, and a short, dark skirt.
		Perovskaya introduced herself and greeted us in the open, direct fashion of an old friend, although she had never met either of us.
		Sophia always gave us a warm, friendly welcome; she acted as if we were the ones with stimulating ideas and news to share, rather than the reverse.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /RUSperovskaya.htm (1443 words)

	YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> Sophia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		{{wiktionary}} Sophia is a common name that comes from the Greek word ÏÎ¿ÏÎ¯Î± ("wisdom"), that may refer to:
		Princess Sophia of the United Kingdom, fifth daughter of George III: younger sister of Princess Augusta Sophia
		Sophia Forrester, first officer on the battleship Silvana, and daughter of the Anatole emperor in the anime series, Last Exile.
	www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/Sophia (265 words)

	Russia: Land Of The Tsars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Sophia, the half-sister of Peter the Great, was one such woman.
		Her bold assertion of power was met in kind when in 1689, Peter, then seventeen, gained complete control of the Russian government in a plot engineered by his mother, Natalya Naryskina, and Sophia was banished to the Novodevichy convent in Moscow.
		As one of the masterminds behind the assassination of Alexander II in 1881, Perovskaya and her anarchist group Narodnaya Volya (The People's Will), set in motion a series of events that would gradually overthrow six centuries of Romanov rule.
	www.predworld.com /press/tsars.html (980 words)

	Alexander II (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		On a street corner near the Catherine Canal Sophia Perovskaya gave the signal to Nikolai Rysakov and Timofei Mikhailov to throw their bombs at the Tsar's carriage.
		Sophia Perovskaya, Andrei Zhelyabov, Nikolai Kibalchich, Nikolai Rysakov and Timofei Mikhailov were hanged on 3rd April, 1881.
		(3) In her memoirs Olga Liubatovich described the reactions of Sophia Perovskaya after the failure to assassinate Alexander II in November, 1879.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk.cob-web.org:8888 /RUSalexander2.htm (2034 words)

	Ignacy Hryniewiecki - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Most probably this was the reason why he was invited to the meetings of Russian revolutionary Narodnaya Volya (People's Will) movement, unlike many of his colleagues of non-Russian descent.
		In 1880, Hryniewiecki, Andrei Zhelyabov, Sophia Perovskaya and others were in charge of revolutionary propaganda among students and workers.
		Its members - Nikolai Kibalchich, Sophia Perovskaya, Nikolai Rysakov, Timofei Mikhailov, Andrei Zhelyabov - were arrested and sentenced to death.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ignacy_Hryniewiecki (411 words)

	Leo Tolstoy
		It is one of raised but then dashed hopes, of confusion, conflict, and alienation, but also one of yearning for love and a sense of community.
		It is one of the poet and philosopher Vladimir Soloviev, formerly a teenage nihilist, seeking a vision of Sophia, the oneness of the universe, in an Egyptian desert.
		And it is one in which even Tsar Alexander II seeks refuge from the complexities and conflicts of the time in the arms of a women younger than most of his children.
	www.erraticimpact.com /~19thcentury/html/tolstoy.htm (1036 words)

	Alexander II of Russia Encyclopedia Article @ Forbade.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Accounts claim that when Alexander got out of his bulletproof carriage (a gift from Napoleon I), he was hit by another suicide bomber, mortally wounded by an explosion of hand-made grenades and died a few hours afterwards.
		Nikolai Kibalchich, Sophia Perovskaya, Nikolai Rysakov, Timofei Mikhailov, and Andrei Zhelyabov were all arrested and sentenced to death.
		The Tsar was killed by Ignacy Hryniewiecki, a Pole from Bobrujsk (now Babruysk, Belarus), who died as well during the attack.
	www.forbade.net /encyclopedia/Alexander_II_of_Russia (2077 words)

	In the Steps of Jack London (Chapter 14)
		In the store windows, you could see photographs of Sophia Perovskaya, executed for participating in the murder of the Tsar Alexander H. Chernyshevski's book that inspired a whole generation of suffering from the tsarist people was sold everywhere.
		Some woman told the American visitors that she once had hidden Sophia Perovskaya.
		Anna was shown the picture albums with the photos of Perovskaya, Kalyaev, Sazonov, and Konoplyannikova, together with the picture of some student who was killed on the Moscow barricades.
	www.jacklondons.net /writings/Bykov/ihs_chapter14.html (1863 words)

	Amazon.fr : Russia in the Age of Alexander Ii, Tolstoy and Dostoevsky: Livres en anglais: Walter G. Moss (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Age of Alexander II is both history and story, interweaving the personal and public lives of Alexander II, and other leading lights of the age.
		Including amongst others Bakunin, Dostoevsky, Herzen, the Soloviev family, Tolstoy, Turgenev, the revolutionary Sophia Perovskaya, this book is unique in its incorporation of the lives and ideas of the period's great writers and thinkers into the story of Alexander's turbulent reign.
		It offers some reflections on the tragic consequences of his reign in an era of hopes raised but then dashed, of confusion, conflict, and alienation, but also one of yearning for love and a sense of community.
	www.amazon.fr /Russia-Age-Alexander-Tolstoy-Dostoevsky/dp/1898855595 (281 words)

	Report From The Fifth NEFAC Congress \| NEFAC
		The member collectives are Sabate (Boston), Roundhouse (Baltimore), Tute Nere (DC), Sophia Perovskaya (Boston), Barricada (Boston), Quebec City Local Union, the Montreal Local Union, and La Bete Noire (Montreal).
		There was also a speakers bureau created (to be managed by Roundhouse), a Warchest fund (by Sophia Perovskaya), a working group to re-write the Aims and Principles, and endorsement of the Festival del Pueblo in Boston, the regional mobilization against the G8 in Ottawa, and mobilizations against the IMF/WB in Washington DC in October.
		People overwhelmingly felt that it was a productive and inspiring conference, which was also marked by a direct action in conjunction with ACORN, and marked an important step forward in the development of NEFAC as a stable and mature federation with a clear political program and revolutionary strategy.
	nefac.net /?q=node/138 (488 words)

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		The conspirators were found to be six in number and were condemned to death; one, a Jewess, Jessa Helfmann, was sent into banishment.
		The others: Zhelabovski, Sophia Perovskaya, who by letting fall a handkerchief had given the signal to the assassins, Kibalchich, Risakov, and Mikhailov were sentenced to be hanged.
		Sophia Perovskaya was a woman of undaunted courage and met her fate with a spirit worthy of a better cause.
	www.shsu.edu /~his_ncp/Morphil.html (18763 words)

	Alexander II of Russia Biography
		The assassination was carried out by the radical revolutionary group Narodnaya Volya (People's Will) which hoped to ignite a social revolution.
		The members Nikolai Kibalchich, Sophia Perovskaya, Nikolai Rysakov, Timofei Mikhailov, Andrei Zhelyabov were arrested and sentenced to death.
		The Tsar was killed by the Pole Ignacy Hryniewiecki (1856-1881), who died during the attack.
	www.biographybase.com /biography/Alexander_II_of_Russia.html (1339 words)

	Timofei Mikhailov
		In March, 1881, he was arrested and charged with taking part in the assassination of Alexander II.
		Others involved in the plot included Sophia Perovskaya, Gesia Gelfman, Nikolai Sablin, Ignatei Grinevitski, Andrei Zhelyabov and Nikolai Rysakov.
		, Sophia Perovskaya, Andrei Zhelyabov, Nikolai Rysakov and Timofei Mikhailov were hanged on 3rd April, 1881.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /RUSmikhailov.htm (141 words)

	Sample Chapter for Marks, S.G.: How Russia Shaped the Modern World: From Art to Anti-Semitism, Ballet to Bolshevism.
		Many of the Japanese books on the subject had a local twist, mistakenly equating Nihilism with the Buddhist or Taoist concepts of "nothingness." Others were sensationalized in the manner of a modern Gothic romance.
		Sophia Perovskaya and the terrorist Vera Zasulich were especially big heroes, dolled up to look aristocratic in illustrations for such titles as Tajima Shoji's Stories from Europe about Women with a Purpose in Life (!) or Somada Sakutaro's Strange News from Russia about the Criminal Case of a Heroine.
		Chinese fiction canonized Sophia Perovskaya, and an entire section of Fiction Monthly was for a time dedicated to stories of Russian radicals.
	www.pup.princeton.edu /chapters/s7346.html (9833 words)

	Sophia
		Sophia is a common name that comes from the Greek word s?f?a ("wisdom"), that may refer to:
		[] Real and fictional women named Sophia (or variants thereof)
		If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.
	libraryoflibrary.com /E_n_c_p_d_Sophia.html (267 words)

	American Experience \| Emma Goldman \| Primary Sources \| PBS
		Alexander II had been assassinated the year before and Russian society was in violent fermentation, marked by the execution of the assassins and the imprisonment of their accomplices.
		It was the period of the celebrated revolutionary party of the Narodnaya Volia, of activist "nihilism." Young Emma was deeply impressed by figures like Sophia Perovskaya, who was among those executed for the assassination of the Emperor, and Vera Figner.
		She determined to seek independence and an active career of her own.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/goldman/filmmore/ps_obit.html (1713 words)

	ABOUT THIS SITE AND HOW TO USE IT
		As the Table of Contents indicates, the work presented here interweaves the personal and public lives of Alexander II, Bakunin, Dostoevsky, Herzen, the Soloviev family, Tolstoy, Turgenev, the revolutionary Sophia Perovskaya, and others (see
		In regard to the transliteration of Russian spellings, I have slightly modified for use here the Library of Congress system.
		The most noteworthy modifications of it are the use of "yu" and "ya" instead of "iu" and "ia." Thus Milyutin not Miliutin, and Perovskaya not Perovskaia.
	www.emich.edu /public/history/moss/aboutat.htm (881 words)

	his212_socialism
		Late 19th century, 100s of women “go to the people”
		Sophia Perovskaya hanged in 1881 for trying to assassinate tsar
		In the end, USSR equal rights in theory but little changes
	www.oswego.edu /~mccune/his212_socialism (67 words)

	The Career of a Russian Terrorist
		Narodnaya Volya (People's Will) -- the secret political organisation of Narodnik-terrorists, formed in August 1879 following the split in the Narodnik organisation Zemlya i Volya (Land and Freedom).
		Narodnaya Volya was headed by an Executive Committee which included A. Zhelyabov, A. Kvyatkovsky, A. Mikhailov, N. Morozov, Sophia Perovskaya, Vera Figner, M. Frolenko, and others.
		While still adhering to Narodnik utopian-socialist ideas, Narodnaya Volya took up the political struggle, regarding the overthrow of the autocracy and the achievement of political freedom as a major aim.
	marx2mao.phpwebhosting.com /Lenin/CRT11.html (1632 words)

	Timeline Russia to 1910
		1044-1050 The Cathedral of Saint Sophia was built in Novgorod.
		This is the only work known to be entirely his own.
		A bomb was thrown at him near his palace by the anarchist group People’s Will led by Sophia Perovskaya.
	timelines.ws /countries/RUS_A_1910.HTML (13960 words)

	"Saying No To Power"
		So she borrowed his X and personally founded the field of women's history by collecting every possible news clipping, leaflet, and periodical of the feminism that revived in 1966.
		Untrained, she filed them in accordance with her own weird and wonderful notions, i.e., "Women as Bitches." Astounded by what she discovered of the role of women in 19th-century Russian revolutionary organizations, she started SPAZM, the Sophia Perovskaya and Andrei Zhelyabov Memorial Co-educational (her emphasis!) Society for People's Freedom through Women's Liberation.
		The 17 people she invited as founding members included three Mandels -- Tanya, Phyllis, and myself.
	www.billmandel.net /h/22.shtml (21675 words)

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