Biography of Vera Nikolaevna

Three lives of Vera Figner three of the lives of Vera Figner in February in the year in Petrograd from abroad Vera Figner returned-the famous "people", which spent more than twenty years in prison. She was born on the estate of the Nikiforovo of the Tetyushsky district of the Kazan province on July 7. The ancestors of the figures were immigrants from Livonia, Paul I granted them a hereditary nobility.

The father of the girl Nikolai Alexandrovich, retired staff captain, served as the provincial secretary, then forester. He was married to Catherine Khristoforovna Kupriyanova.

There were six children in the family. Vera Nikolaevna, her brothers and sisters, spent early childhood, as expected by the children of the forester, in deaf forests. In the year, the eleven -year faith was given to the Kazan Rodionov Institute, which she graduated from the first student, with the Golden Cipher. The girl was capable and very proud. A serene opened in front of her, in anticipation of a happy marriage, after an institutic life.

A young girl who wanted to study medicine began to ask her father to let her go to Switzerland. But instead of the university, they began to take her into the light, and at one of the balls she met Alexei Filippov, the son of a wealthy Kazan landowner. The flared feeling was mutual. In the spring of the year, Vera, together with her husband and sister, Lydia, went to Zurich to continue her education.

In Switzerland of that time, there were many different revolutionary circles, the sisters were also involved in the work of which. At the same time, Vera tried in every possible way to draw into the revolutionary activity of her husband, but Alexei Viktorovich resisted. Disagreements in the political views of the spouses and became the reason for their break.

In the spring of the year, Filippov filed for divorce and returned to Russia. Vera, meanwhile, was more and more fond of revolutionary activity, which eventually grew into the meaning of her whole life. According to the first call of the revolutionary organization, she returned to Russia. By that time, in her past, Figner irrevocably set up a cross. In December, she took part in a revolutionary demonstration on Kazan Square in St.

Petersburg. After the split of the “land and will” in the year, Figner, a member of the Executive Committee of “People’s Will”. She was strikingly successfully eluded the police; Legends went about the fearlessness and elusiveness. Only three years after the people's murders of Alexander II and the execution of the participants in the assassination attempt, Vera Figner, issued by the traitor, was detained by the police.

Alexander III, having received the news of her arrest, exclaimed: “Thank God this terrible woman is arrested! Soldered a single conclusion in the Shlisselburg fortress for 20 years. They released it already under Nicholas II - in the m. In the year, Vera went abroad, where she joined the Socialist -Revolutionaries and conducted active work in defense of the political prisoners in Russia, and also began to write memories of the former revolutionary struggle.

She becomes a historian of her own past, the past of her friends. She returned to the dramatically changing homeland, she met the February revolution with joy, did not accept Oktyabrskaya, but did not emigrate, remained in Russia. She was engaged in literary work, giving most of the fee to help schools, libraries, and museums. By the summer of birth, a complete collection of her works in seven volumes was published.

Vera Nikolaevna Figner did not survive only a few weeks before her flying and several months before the anniversary of the Soviet regime, having died on June 15. For a quarter of a century, she lived under the Soviet regime. Few people send fate to see the “ends of the beginning” in the words of Herzen. Vera Figner fell out of this luck. Natalya Barkova, chief librarian of the universal reading room based on the materials of the book: Kaidash-Klahshina S.

The fate of the great Russian women.