Elisabeth Dmitrieff (real name: Elizabeta Luknichna Tomanovskaya (née
Kusheleva); Russian: Елизавета Лукинична
Ð¢Ð¾Ð¼Ð°Ð½Ð¾Ð²Ñ ÐºÐ°Ñ (née Кушелева); 1 November 1850,
Volok, now in Toropetsky District, Tver Oblast â€" 1910 or 1918) was a
Russian-born feminist and revolutionary of the 1871 Paris Commune.
Born Elisaviéta Loukinitcha Koucheleva, she was a co-founder of the
Women's Union [fr], created on 11 April 1871, in a café of the rue du
Temple, with Nathalie Lemel.Elisabeth Dmitrieff was the daughter of a
Tsarist official. She was active in her youth in the Socialist circles
of Saint Petersburg. In 1868, she travelled to Switzerland, and
co-founded the Russian section of the First International. Delegated
to London, she met Karl Marx there, who sent her in March 1871, aged
20, to cover the events of the Commune.Dmitrieff finally became a
participant in these events, founding with Nathalie Lemel the Women's
Union for the Defense of Paris and Care of the Wounded [fr] on 11
April 1871. She dedicated herself especially to political questions
and the organisation of cooperative workshops.Elisabeth Dmitrieff
contributed to the Socialist newspaper La Cause du peuple. After
having fought on the barricades during the Bloody Week, she fled to
Russia. Once arrived in her native country, she married a man who was
later convicted of fraud and in 1878 followed him in deportation in
Siberia, where she lived until 1902.
Kusheleva); Russian: Елизавета Лукинична
Ð¢Ð¾Ð¼Ð°Ð½Ð¾Ð²Ñ ÐºÐ°Ñ (née Кушелева); 1 November 1850,
Volok, now in Toropetsky District, Tver Oblast â€" 1910 or 1918) was a
Russian-born feminist and revolutionary of the 1871 Paris Commune.
Born Elisaviéta Loukinitcha Koucheleva, she was a co-founder of the
Women's Union [fr], created on 11 April 1871, in a café of the rue du
Temple, with Nathalie Lemel.Elisabeth Dmitrieff was the daughter of a
Tsarist official. She was active in her youth in the Socialist circles
of Saint Petersburg. In 1868, she travelled to Switzerland, and
co-founded the Russian section of the First International. Delegated
to London, she met Karl Marx there, who sent her in March 1871, aged
20, to cover the events of the Commune.Dmitrieff finally became a
participant in these events, founding with Nathalie Lemel the Women's
Union for the Defense of Paris and Care of the Wounded [fr] on 11
April 1871. She dedicated herself especially to political questions
and the organisation of cooperative workshops.Elisabeth Dmitrieff
contributed to the Socialist newspaper La Cause du peuple. After
having fought on the barricades during the Bloody Week, she fled to
Russia. Once arrived in her native country, she married a man who was
later convicted of fraud and in 1878 followed him in deportation in
Siberia, where she lived until 1902.
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