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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. New York, Jan. 22.—A Berlin cable says: The forerunner of his imperial Highness, the Czarewitch, arrived some twenty-four hours before the great event materialized, which sets all Berlin talking. The stories going the rounds with reference to the Czarewitch is that the Czar’s desire is to make a dicker with the Kaiser to fight Nihilism and Socialism. In connection with this the following story is […]
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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 implicating in the conspiracy against the life of the Czar, Olga Goutsehaunko, a young and beautiful girl, connected with prominent Russian families. Yesterday the chief of police went to her house to arrest her, when the girl, suddenly drawing a revolver, shot him dead. She then turned the pistol upon herself and blew out her own brains. Manitoba Free Press (Winnipeg, Canada) 16 no. 164 […]
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The Stuff of which Nihilist Martyrs are Made (Sophie Perovskaya, 1881)

June 22, 2016 A Beautiful Nihilist
The Stuff of which Nihilist Martyrs are Made. Sophie Perowski, recently executed for complicity in the murder of the Czar, was, according to the Intransigeant, a woman of the highest endowments and accomplishments, who at the age of 16 devoted herself to the propaganda of socialist doctrines. For twelve years she never shrank from any sacrifice and never showed lack of courage or want of presence of mind. She cast aside honors, wealth, case, and submitted to tile coarsest drudgery. She walked alone the whole course of the Volga, her energy triumphing over old cold, tempests, hunger and malady. She […]
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Beautiful Nihilist Slays; Weds; Tracked, Is Caught (Wanda Krahelska-Filipowicz, 1907)

June 22, 2016 A Beautiful Nihilist
BEAUTIFUL NIHILIST SLAYS; WEDS; TRACKED, IS CAUGHT Woman Who Killed Governor Genera of Warsaw Pleads She Has Become Austrian by Marriage By Associated Press. VIENNA, Nov. 23.—Wanda Dobroczieka, the woman who threw a bomb at Gen. Skalon of Warsaw and, aided by confederates, disappeared has been brought from Cracow to Vienna, where her trial on the demand of the Russian government for her extradition will take place. The prisoner is a strikingly pretty woman of the Polish type and is as intelligent as she is pretty. After her crime she fled to Cracow. There her beauty attracted many admirers, one […]
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A Beautiful Nihilist (Vera Figner, 1892)

June 22, 2016 A Beautiful Nihilist
A Beautiful Nihilist Boston Advertiser Vera Figner is one of the Nihilists lately condemned to death at St. Petersburg. She is described as of rare beauty. She is 27 years of age, and has been active in all nihilistic conspiracies since 1878. It was she who with Sophie Perowskaya succeeded in starting the propaganda in the army, and organized terrorist societies in several regiments, including the 16th Grenadiers. It is believed that the Czar will commute the death sentence. The Daily Commonwealth (Topeka, Kansas) no. 4860 (November 27, 1884): 3.  
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“Did Ravachol’s Head Utter a Word?” (August 17, 1892)

May 18, 2015 Shawn P. Wilbur
Did Ravachol’s Head Utter a Word? London Daily Telegraph Ever since the execution of Ravachol a lively controversy has been going on as to the real nature of the “last cry” which he uttered just as the knife of the guillotine was falling upon his neck. Whether he intended to shout “Vive la République!” or “la Révolution!” or “la Révolte!” will never be known, as he had only cried: “Vive la re———” when his head was severed from his body. Several persons who were close to the guillotine declare that they distinctly heard the final syllables “———publique” issue from the […]