BRESHROVSKAYA, Ekaterina Con stantinovna, Russian revolutionist: b. 1843. The daughter of well-to-do parents, she was brought up and educated in the country. She early evinced a deep sympathy with the poor and illiterate peasants around her, dispensing charity and teaching them to read. As a young girl she was married to a nobleman of similar liberal disposition to herself, by whom she had a son. According to her own statement, she came to Saint Petersburg, Moscow and Kieff at the age of 25 and became an active mem ber of the revolutionary party. She left her husband and child to devote her life to ((preach the gospel of liberty?' At 29 she was arrested and sentenced to 22 years' imprisonment in Siberia, whither she was sent after spending four years in various prisons. She returned to Russia in 1896 and started a society called the Socialist Revolutionists. For the next 11 years she traveled over the empire spreading revolutionary doctrines. In 1904 she visited
America. On her return she was again ar rested and exiled to Siberia. The successful revolution of 1917 opened the prison doors for thousands of political prisoners and Breshkov slcaya was recalled from Siberia with many others. She was welcomed to Petrograd with great public enthusiasm and almost royal honors. Her first task was to establish print ing presses in populous centres of Russia for further propaganda among the peasants. She fervently exhorted her compatriots to stead fastly continue the war, and desired even to go to the front in order to talk to the troops °who are so dark in their minds that they think this is a war for the Tsar and the See RUSSIA, REVOLUTION. Consult Blackwell, Alice S., (The Grandmother of the Russian Revolution' (New York 1917) ; the Outlook (21 Nov. 1917).