Vera Liubatovich (

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: Вера Спиридоновна Любатович; 1855–1907) was a Russian revolutionary and a founding member of the All-Russian Social-Revolutionary Organization.

Biography

Vera Spiridonovna Liubatovich was born in Moscow on 7 August 1855 ( O.S.: 26 July 1855). Her sister was

Olga Lyubatovich Olga Spiridonovna Lyubatovich (russian: Ольга Спиридоновна Любатович; 1854–1917) was a Russian revolutionary and member of Narodnaya Volya. Biography Early life Lyubatovich was the daughter of an engineer and a polit ...

(1853–1917). Vera attended the Second Moscow Women's Gymnasium from 1868 to 1871. She and Olga moved to Switzerland in 1871. In 1873, at 17, Liubatovich enrolled in the Medical Faculty of the

University of Zurich The University of Zürich (UZH, german: Universität Zürich) is a public research university located in the city of Zürich, Switzerland. It is the largest university in Switzerland, with its 28,000 enrolled students. It was founded in 1833 f ...

. She was a member of the Fritschi Circle (named after Zurich landlady Frau Fritsch). A

Narodnik The Narodniks (russian: народники, ) were a politically conscious movement of the Russian intelligentsia in the 1860s and 1870s, some of whom became involved in revolutionary agitation against tsarism. Their ideology, known as Narodism, ...

and propagandist, Liubatovich co-founded the All-Russian Social-Revolutionary Organization, the first formal organization of Russian Populists. She was in charge of communications with the provinces and with those revolutionaries who had been imprisoned. She was arrested in 1875. Following the Trial of the Fifty in 1877, she was sentenced to six years of forced labour. Her sentenced was commuted to exile in Siberia. She married V.A. Ostashkin in 1880 and stayed in Siberia until the 1890s, later living in

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and Moscow. She died in Moscow on 19 December 1907.

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