Vera Zasulich

poetry

Joseph Verey, “Vera Sassulitch” (1880)

August 5, 2016 A Beautiful Nihilist
VERA SASSULITCH. Joseph Verey If any asked the student, which He thought the prettiest among A score of Moscow school-girls, “Young And gentle Vera Sassulitch,” He answered with a ready tongue. Netchaieff was the student named, And Vera and his sister moved In the same social grade, and loved Each other, and the student claimed The heart of Vera unreproved. But oft Netchaieffs mind was bent— With passion which to youth belongs— Upon the many cruel wrongs Of a despotic Government, Deriding it in tales and songs. And some of these to Vera given, Around her drew the fatal coil […]
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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, while much has been written about the men who figured prominently in Nihilism, writers have failed to show the same interest in the women who participated in the movement. It was not until 1862 that women began to take an active part in Nihilism, and the movement is indebted for not a little of its success to the tact and shrewdness of the many brave […]