SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Vera Figner

1852 - 1942

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Vera Nikolayevna Figner Filippova (Russian: Вера Николаевна Фигнер Филиппова; 7 July [O.S. 25 June] 1852 – 25 June 1942) was a Russian revolutionary and political activist. Born in Kazan Governorate of the Russian Empire into a noble family of German and Russian descent, Figner was a leader of the clandestine Narodnaya Volya ("People's Will") group, which advocated the use of terror to achieve a revolutionary overthrow of the government, Figner was a participant in planning the successful assassination of Alexander II in 1881. Figner was later arrested and spent 20 months in solitary confinement prior to trial, at which she was sentenced to death. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vera Figner has received more than 139,667 page views. Her biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Vera Figner is the 244th most popular social activist, the 735th most popular biography from Russia (up from 799th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Russian Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Vera Figner ranks 244 out of 840. Before her are W. E. B. Du Bois, Marina Ginestà, David Riazanov, David Lane, Maria Altmann, and Stjepan Filipović. After her are Diana Budisavljević, Vandana Shiva, Eglantyne Jebb, Djamila Bouhired, Ryszard Siwiec, and Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1852, Vera Figner ranks 45. Before her are John Harvey Kellogg, Archduke Johann Salvator of Austria, Théophile Delcassé, John Henry Poynting, Joseph Freinademetz, and Frederick Augustus II, Grand Duke of Oldenburg. After her are Friedrich Loeffler, Bérenger Saunière, Arnold Toynbee, Charles W. Fairbanks, Leopoldo Alas, and John French, 1st Earl of Ypres. Among people deceased in 1942, Vera Figner ranks 84. Before her are Alfred Flatow, Georges Politzer, Cesare Mori, Atsushi Nakajima, Walter Sickert, and Stjepan Filipović. After her are Alois Eliáš, Henk Sneevliet, A. E. Waite, Walther von Lüttwitz, Dorando Pietri, and Karel Doorman.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Vera Figner ranks 735 out of 3,761. Before her are Georgy Shpagin (1897), Tanya Savicheva (1930), Anna Sophia of Prussia (1527), Bella Akhmadulina (1937), Alisa Freindlich (1934), and Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky (1827). After her are Lyudmila Chernykh (1935), Ivan Susanin (1501), Fyodor Sologub (1863), Gabdulkhay Akhatov (1927), Boris Gromov (1943), and Nikolai Rezanov (1764).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Russia

Among social activists born in Russia, Vera Figner ranks 17. Before her are Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya (1923), Maria Spiridonova (1884), Vladimir Bukovsky (1942), Ilya Ulyanov (1831), Grigory Mikhaylovich Semyonov (1890), and Sophia Perovskaya (1853). After her are Alexander Antonov (1889), Sergey Taboritsky (1897), Feodosia Morozova (1632), Pavel Pestel (1793), Nikolai Kuznetsov (1911), and Yuri Levitan (1914).

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