Maria Nikiforova
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Maria Nikiforova, or Nikiphorova (1885 - 1919), was an anarchist partisan leader whose activities influenced the Ukrainian revolutionary Nestor Makhno.
A member of a local Ukrainian anarchist group, her involvement in terrorist activities during 1905-1906 led to a death sentence, later commuted to life imprisonment. She served part of her sentence in the Petropavlovsk prison in Petrograd, before being exiled to Siberia in 1910. From there she escaped to Japan and then the United States.
In the summer of 1917, she returned to Oleksandrivsk in Ukraine where she organized a combat detachment to terrorize the city's authorities, in particular army officers and landlords. She then moved to Elizavetgrad, where she organized and commanded a Black Guard combat regiment which fought successive authorities, including Anton Denikin.
Nikiforova's goal was the destruction of all State institutions. In August 1917, she seized and robbed a military storehouse at Orikhiv, subsequently attacking, disarming and dispersing the town's regiment and executing all officers captured. Some of the spoils were delivered to Makhno. In April 1918, she received a commendation from the Bolshevik general Vladimir Antonov-Ovseenko for her revolutionary activities.
Nikiforova was captured and executed by forces loyal to the White movement in 1919, during the Russian Civil War.
[edit] External links
- Maria Nikiforova Page at the Daily Bleed's Anarchist Encyclopedia
