SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Catherine Breshkovsky

1844 - 1934

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Yekaterina Konstantinovna Breshko-Breshkovskaya (née Verigo; born 25 January [O.S. 13 January] 1844 – 12 September 1934), also known in English sources as Catherine Breshkovsky, was a major figure in the Russian socialist movement, a Narodnik, and later one of the founders of the Socialist Revolutionary Party. She has been described as Russia's first female political prisoner. She spent over four decades in prison and Siberian exile for peaceful opposition to Tsarism, acquiring, in her latter years, international stature as a political prisoner. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Catherine Breshkovsky has received more than 96,929 page views. Her biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Catherine Breshkovsky is the 343rd most popular social activist (down from 328th in 2019), the 1,160th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,135th in 2019) and the 25th most popular Russian Social Activist.

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  • 52.51

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.71

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.75

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Catherine Breshkovsky ranks 343 out of 840. Before her are Sergei Kovalev, Ho Jong-suk, Harry Wu, Susannah Mushatt Jones, Greta Thunberg, and Gaius Hostilius Mancinus. After her are Anatoly Marchenko, Sumner Paine, Lempira, Sophie Adlersparre, Mehdi Huseynzade, and Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1844, Catherine Breshkovsky ranks 63. Before her are Kuroki Tamemoto, Tivadar Puskás, Charles Augustus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Gustave Schlumberger, Cassius Marcellus Coolidge, and Ivan Yarkovsky. After her are Gyula Benczúr, Sanford B. Dole, Olga Wisinger-Florian, Konstantin Savitsky, Andrew Lang, and Patrick Manson. Among people deceased in 1934, Catherine Breshkovsky ranks 87. Before her are François Coty, Rudolf Maister, Pablo Gargallo, Gustave Lanson, Baby Face Nelson, and Cassius Marcellus Coolidge. After her are Alfred Bruneau, Carl Charlier, Karl von Einem, João do Canto e Castro, Franklin Clarence Mars, and Maria Zankovetska.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Catherine Breshkovsky ranks 1,160 out of 3,761. Before her are Vitaly Solomin (1941), Paul Gorguloff (1895), Kir Bulychev (1934), Mikhail Diterikhs (1874), Zinaida Greceanîi (1956), and Vasily Rozanov (1856). After her are Philip William, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt (1669), Elena Obraztsova (1939), Anatoly Marchenko (1938), Pyotr Saltykov (1698), Pavel Batov (1897), and Johann Friedrich Reichardt (1752).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Russia

Among social activists born in Russia, Catherine Breshkovsky ranks 25. Before her are Sergey Taboritsky (1897), Feodosia Morozova (1632), Pavel Pestel (1793), Nikolai Kuznetsov (1911), Yuri Levitan (1914), and Natalya Estemirova (1958). After her are Anatoly Marchenko (1938), Peter Arshinov (1887), Zinaida Portnova (1926), Sergei Petrovich Trubetskoy (1790), Tatyana Baramzina (1919), and Marina Oswald Porter (1941).

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