Breshkovsky, Catherine (1844-1934) Also known as: Breshko-Breshkovskai, Ekaterina Konstantinovna

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Address at Meeting for Catherine Breshkovsky, January 22, 1905 (excerpt)

Jane Addams Talks for Peace, January 23, 1905

Autobiographical Notes Upon Twenty Years at Hull-House: Echoes of the Russian Revolution, September 1910

Jane Addams to Lillian D. Wald, December 31, 1910

Jane Addams to Lillian D. Wald, December 11, 1913

Alice Stone Blackwell to Jane Addams, January 2, 1916

Alice Stone Blackwell to Jane Addams, April 14, 1917

Jane Addams to Emanuel Haldeman-Julius, July 7, 1917

Raymond Robins to Jane Addams, January 22, 1919

Jane Addams to Lillian D. Wald, January 23, 1919

Lillian D. Wald to Jane Addams, January 23, 1919

Jane Addams to Lillian D. Wald, January 25, 1919

Paul Underwood Kellogg to Jane Addams, January 30, 1919

Lillian D. Wald to Jane Addams, February 26, 1919

Eleanor Daggett Karsten to Lillian D. Wald, February 28, 1919

George Lazareff to Alice Stone Blackwell, July 23-29, 1919

Emily Greene Balch to Jane Addams, January 9, 1926

Catherine Breshkovsky to Jane Addams, Paul Underwood Kellogg, and Lillian D. Wald, May 10, 1916

Catherine Breshkovsky to Jane Addams, November 30, 1916

Catherine Breshkovsky to Jane Addams April 18, 1917

Catherine Breshkovsky to Ellen Gates Starr February 12, 1919

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Birth Date

1844-01-13

Death Date

1934-09-12

Birthplace

Pskov Oblast, Russia

Biographical Text

Catherine Breshkovsky was a Russian social reformer and anarchist. Born to a noble family, Breshkovsky joined the Narodnik movement to overthrow the Tsarist government in the 1870s and in 1878 was was exiled to a Siberian work camp. After her release in 1896, she formed the Socialist Revolutionary Party, and became a key player, dubbed "Babushka," the grandmother of the Russian Revolution. She fled the Russian government in 1901, stopping in Switzerland and the United States, where she spoke against the Russian government and raised funds for its enemies. She returned to Russia in 1905 and led the opposition until arrested in 1907 and again sent to Siberia. She was released in 1917 when the Tsarist government fell, and became part of the Kerensky government. After its fall, she was exiled to Czechoslovakia, by the Bolsheviks.

Breshkovsky married Nikolai Breshko-Breshkovsky a liberal nobleman in 1869. They had one son, Nikolas Breshko-Breshkovsky, who was raised by his aunt to reject his mother's beliefs. She died in 1934 in Czechoslovakia.

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Political activist

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Picture: Little, Brown, and co., Russian revolutionary Yekaterina Breshko-Breshkovskaya, 1918, The little grandmother of the Russian revolution (accessed March 1, 2017).