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“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. […]

Sir Henry Parkes, “The Beauteous Terrorist” (Sophie Perovskaya, 1885)

June 22, 2016 A Beautiful Nihilist

“She was beautiful. It was not the beauty which dazzles at first sight, but that which fascinates the more, the more it is regarded. “A blonde, with a pair of blue eyes, serious and penetrating, […]

Beautiful Nihilist Girl (Olga Gontcharenko, 1890)

June 22, 2016 A Beautiful Nihilist

BEAUTIFUL NIHILIST GIRL Implicated in the Plot Against the Czar’s Life, Shoots a Policeman and Then Herself. St. Petersburg, Jan 11.—In following up the plots of the Nihilists in Warsaw the secret police discovered evidence […]

“Sophie Perovskaya”

June 22, 2016 A Beautiful Nihilist

Sophie Perovskaya, LIBERTY’S MARTYRED HEROINE. Hanged April 15, 1881, For Helping to Rid the World of a Tyrant. Down from her high estate she stept, A maiden, gently born And by the icy Volga kept […]

Hubert Church, “Vera Figner” (1908)

June 22, 2016 A Beautiful Nihilist

[Vera Figner, Russian Revolutionary; a woman of great charm and radiant beauty. She was condemned to imprisonment for life, and for twenty years was immured in the living rave of the Schlusselburg Fortress. When these […]

Voltairine de Cleyre, “Some Nihilists I Have Met” (1893)

June 22, 2016 A Beautiful Nihilist

Some Nihilists I Have Met The word nihilist is so generally associated with darkness, secrecy, dynamite, assassination and blood, that had someone whispered five minutes before the encounter, “You are about to meet a Russian […]