Maria Dmitrievna Perveeva (Russian: Мария Дмитриевна Первеева, born 1879) was a Russian teacher and politician. In 1917 she was one of the ten women elected to the Constituent Assembly, the country's first female parliamentarians.
Maria Perveeva | |
|---|---|
| Member of the Constituent Assembly | |
| In office 1918 | |
| Constituency | Voronezh |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1879 Zadonsk, Russian Empire |
Biography
editPerveeva was born in Zadonsk in 1879.[1] She trained to be a teacher and became involved in self-education, but was arrested in 1894 and 1901 for her activities.[1] After being arrested again in 1904, she was freed from jail by local peasants.[2] In 1905 she co-founded a group of revolutionaries in Valuysky District, which organised illegal meetings. She also joined the Socialist Revolutionary Party and became a member of the provincial committee in Voronezh Governorate.[1] After another arrest, she briefly emigrated, but returned to Russia in 1907. However, she was arrested and sentenced to hard labour, spending ten years in prison in Irkutsk.[1]
Following the start of the Russian Revolution, in 1917 she was a Socialist-Revolutionary candidate in Voronezh in the Constituent Assembly elections, and was one of ten women elected to the legislature.[3][1] After the establishment of the Soviet Union, she became a member of the Society of Former Political Prisoners and Exiled Settlers,[1] and worked in an artel in Khosta. In 1937 she was sentenced to eight years in a labour camp by the Krasnodar Krai branch of the NKVD; she was rehabilitated in 1963.
References
edit- ^ a b c d e f Первеева Мария Дмитриевна Hrono
- ^ Sarah Badcock (2000) Support for the Socialist Revolutionary Party during 1917, with a case study of events in Nizhegorodskaia guberniia
- ^ Rochelle Goldberg Ruthchild (2010) Equality and Revolution p235