Politics
Sofia Perovskaya
Addresses you can still visit
Every place in this city with a documented tie to this person.
Lived here
Kurbatov Merchant House
Perovskaya lived in the house during her family’s period in Pskov and shared a mezzanine room with her sister.
Traces in other cities
- Saint Petersburg
- Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood — Directed the bomb throwers on the Catherine Canal; Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood marks Alexander IIs assassination site.
- Saint Petersburg
- Mikhailovsky Manege — The imperial route from the weekly roll call at Mikhailovsky Manege was the target of the 1 March 1881 ambush she coordinated.
- Saint Petersburg
- People’s Will Cheese Shop Site — Peoples Will used the Malaya Sadovaya cheese shop as the mine base for the 1 March 1881 plot she directed after Zhelyabovs arrest.
- Saint Petersburg
- Pionerskaya Square — Hanged 15 April 1881 with other Pervomartovtsy on the Semenovsky parade ground — today’s Pionerskaya Square.
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