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Sophia Lvovna Perovskaya (Russian: Со́фья Льво́вна Перо́вская; 13 September [O.S. 1 September] 1853 – 15 April [O.S. 3 April] 1881) was a Russian revolutionary and a member of the revolutionary organization Narodnaya Volya.
May 30, 2018 · Sophia Perovskaya, an aristocrat, was executed for a political crime after leading the 1881 assassination of Czar Alexander II.
Sophia Perovskaya, the daughter of Lev Perovsky, governor-general of St. Petersburg, was born on 13th September, 1853. His wife and four children occupied a mansion in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Sophia's grandfather had been governor of the Crimea in the reign of Tsar Alexander I.
Of the four assassins coordinated by Sophia Perovskaya, two of them actually committed the deed. One assassin, Nikolai Rysakov, threw a bomb which damaged the carriage, prompting the Tsar to disembark. At this point a second assassin, Ignacy Hryniewiecki, threw a bomb that fatally wounded Alexander II.
Member of the Russian aristocracy who turned to terrorism, was executed for engineering the assassination of Tsar Alexander II, and became a national martyr. Name variations: Sofya or Sofia Perovskaia. Pronunciation: Sown-ya Pair-ov-SKY-ya.
PEROVSKAYA, SOFIA LVOVNA (1853–1881), Russian revolutionary populist, a member of the Executive committee of "Narodnaya Volya" ("People's Will"), and a direct supervisor of the murder of emperor Alexander II.
Apr 21, 2021 · Like Zasulich and Kolenkina, the women who were central to creating this new terrorist organisation – Sophia Perovskaya and Vera Figner – were products of an era of hope and fracture in the land of the Tsars.
