Yelizaveta Kovalskaya
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| Yelizaveta Kovalskaya | |
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| Born | June 17/June 29, 1851 Russia |
| Died | 1943 Russia |
Yelizaveta Nikolayevna Kovalskaya (Solntseva) (Елизавета Николаевна Ковальская (Солнцева) in Russian) (7.17(29).1851 or 1849 - 1943) was a Russian revolutionary and narodnik.
Yelizaveta Kovalskaya conducted revolutionary propaganda in Kharkov and St.Petersburg in the 1870s. She was close to the Zemlya i volya. After its split in 1879, Kovalskaya joined the Black Repartition. In 1880, together with Nikolai Schedrin, she took part in organizing the Worker's Union of Southern Russia in Kiev, for which she would be sentenced to an open-ended katorga in 1881. In 1882, Kovalskaya was transferred to the Kara katorga. In 1903-1917, she was in exile in Switzerland and France, where she would join the Socialist-Revolutionary Party.
In 1918, Kovalskaya became a research worker at Petrograd Historical Revolutionary Archive and member of the editorial board of the Katorga and Exile magazine (Каторга и ссылка).
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