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    Vera Nikolayevna Figner Filippova (Russian: Вера Николаевна Фигнер Филиппова; 7 July [O.S. 25 June] 1852 – 25 June 1942) was a Russian revolutionary and...
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  • surname Figner may refer to: Aleksandr Figner (1787—1813), Russian colonel Vera Figner (1852–1942), Russian revolutionary Nikolay and Medea Figner, Russian...
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  • Vera (Cyrillic: Вера: Véra, "faith") is a female given name of Slavic origin, and by folk etymology it has also been explained as Latin vera meaning "true"...
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    Nikolaevna Figner (1853-1920), was a Russian revolutionary and a prominent member of the Narodniks. She was the sister of Vera Figner. V. N. Figner, Autobiografia...
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    Nikolai Kibalchich. The night before the attack, Perovskaya along with Vera Figner (also one of seven women on the Executive Committee) helped assemble...
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    Nikolay Figner (1857–1918), lyric tenor, and Medea Figner (1859–1952), mezzo-soprano, later soprano, were a husband-and-wife team of opera singers active...
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    their sentences commuted to life imprisonment. They included two women, Vera Figner and Lyudmila Volkenstein. All were to be denied any kind of contact with...
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    succeeded by the Moscow Circle, made up of a young women's group around Vera Figner and a number of Georgian nationalists that had found common cause with...
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    Committee of the SR Party, who appointed three veteran revolutionaries (Vera Figner, German Lopatin and Prince Kropotkin) to a court of inquiry, which held...
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    Memoirs of a Revolutionist is the memoir of Vera Figner, a member of the Narodnaya Volya who helped plan the assassination of Alexander II. It was first...
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