Politics
Sofia Perovskaya
Addresses you can still visit
Every place in this city with a documented tie to this person.
Commemorated here
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.
Performed here
Mikhailovsky Manege
The imperial route from the weekly roll call at Mikhailovsky Manege was the target of the 1 March 1881 ambush she coordinated.
Lived here
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.
Performed here
Pionerskaya Square
Hanged 15 April 1881 with other Pervomartovtsy on the Semenovsky parade ground — today’s Pionerskaya Square.
Traces in other cities
- Pskov
- Kurbatov Merchant House — Perovskaya lived in the house during her family’s period in Pskov and shared a mezzanine room with her sister.
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