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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. […]

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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, […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Stepniak, “A Female Nihilist” (1886)

June 22, 2016 A Beautiful Nihilist

A FEMALE NIHILIST I. On the 27th of July, in the year 1878, the little town of Talutorovsk, in Western Siberia, was profoundly excited by a painful event. A political prisoner, named Olga Liubatovitch, miserably […]

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Ella Norraikow, “Woman’s Share in Russian Nihilism” (1891)

June 22, 2016 A Beautiful Nihilist

WOMAN’S SHARE IN RUSSIAN NIHILISM Ella Norraikow THE propagation of Nihilistic ideas in Russia received its first great impulse from the novel by Tourgenieff entitled Fathers and Children, which appeared in 1861. Since that time, […]

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The Beautiful Nihilist (Sophie Perovskaya, 1889)

June 22, 2016 A Beautiful Nihilist

THE BEAUTIFUL NIHILIST “She was beautiful.” Those are the three words with which a Russian writer, who was intimately acquainted with her, commences his personal description of Sophie Perovsky. “Hers was not,” he continues, “the […]

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Imprisoned Twenty Years (Vera Figner, 1904)

June 22, 2016 A Beautiful Nihilist

IMPRISONED TWENTY YEARS Czar Banishes Desperate Woman Nihilist to Archangel By Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 8.—Mary Figner, who has been confined to the Schlusselburg fortress for twenty years, has been released and banished to […]

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The Term “Nihilist” (1887)

June 22, 2016 A Beautiful Nihilist

THE TERM “NIHILIST.” November Century.  The word “Nihilist” was introduced in Russia by Turgenef, who used it in his novel “Fathers and Children” to describe a certain type of character which had then recently made […]

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