Catherine Breshkovsky, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Catherine Breshkovsky

Russian politician

Date of Birth: 25-Jan-1844

Place of Birth: Vitebsk, Belarus

Date of Death: 12-Sep-1934

Profession: politician

Nationality: United States, France

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Catherine Breshkovsky (real name Yekaterina Konstantinovna Breshko-Breshkovskaya (born Verigo), Russian: ????????? ?????????????? ??????-???????????; born 25 January (13 January old style) 1844 – 12 September 1934).
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.
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, the grandmother of the Russian Revolution.