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A Horrible Story (Gesya Gelfman, 1881)

June 22, 2016 A Beautiful Nihilist

A HORRIBLE STORY. The story told by the dispatches about Hessy Helfmann, the Nihilist girl, is from Paris, and therefore to be received with strong suspicion, apart from the almost incredible character of the statement. […]

Suspected Nihilists (Olga Ivanovsky, 1890)

June 22, 2016 A Beautiful Nihilist

Suspected Nihilists. St. Petersburg, Dec. 9—The woman now on trial for connection with the nihilist conspiracies is a niece of Privy Councilor Illinsky, Director of the Holy Synod. Her name is Olga Ivanowsky. Several high […]

Arrested as Nihilists (1891)

June 22, 2016 A Beautiful Nihilist

Arrested as Nihilists. St. Petersburg, Oct. 8.—A profound sensation was created here to-day. A young woman from Moscow was arrested, charged with being a Nihilist. She confessed and admitted that she left a trunk at […]

A Female Nihilist (1902)

June 22, 2016 A Beautiful Nihilist

A FEMALE NIHILIST ——– Young Russian Woman With an Infernal Machine in Handkerchief LONDON. May 28. —A dispatch to the Central News from St. Petersburg, dated May 27, says: “Secret service agents arrested a young […]

A Nihilist Crime (1897)

June 22, 2016 A Beautiful Nihilist

A Nihilist Crime PARIS, Sept. 3—The body of a beautiful woman, naked and frightfully mutilated, with her skull smashed in, has been found in the river Seine. In the middle of the woman’s back were […]

“Another beautiful nihilist…” (1887)

June 22, 2016 A Beautiful Nihilist

Persons and Personages. Another beautiful nihilist has been transported by Russian tyranny to Siberia. This sweet creature’s banishment is mourned by a large and interesting family of sixteen husbands. Omaha World-Herald 3 no. 63 (November […]

“Young Russian Woman With an Infernal Machine in Handkerchief”

June 22, 2016 Shawn P. Wilbur

The newest addition to the Libertarian Labyrinth archive is The Beautiful Nihilist: Representations of Revolutionary Women. The project is to gather material from the popular press depicting radical and particularly militant women, in all its […]

A Young Nihilist Woman (Olga Gontcharenko, 1890)

June 22, 2016 A Beautiful Nihilist

A YOUNG NIHILIST WOMAN. She Kills a Government Officer and Then Commits Suicide. New York, February 3d.— A letter to the Tribune from St. Petersburg gives the following details of the recent murder of Colonel […]

A Female Nihilist (Olga Ivanovsky, 1891)

June 22, 2016 A Beautiful Nihilist

A Female Nihilist. Some farther particulars have been gleaned regarding the young girl who is being tried at the present time, with four other persons, at St. Petersburg for being concerned in revolutionary schemes. Her […]

Revival of Nihilism (Mme. Frowdeinki, 1893)

June 22, 2016 A Beautiful Nihilist

REVIVAL OF NIHILISM. ——– STORY FROM ST. PETERSBURG IN RELATION THERETO. ——– The Wife of a General Elopes With a Nihilist, and is Afterward Captured and Killed by Her Husband. ——– Special to the Record-Union. […]