Zasulich, Vera

1894 - A Russian Marxist writer and revolutionary was born on the 27th of July in Mikhaylovka, Russia.

1866 - Graduated from high school and moved to St. Petersburg, where she worked as a clerk.

- Became involved in radical politics and taught literacy classes for factory workers.

1869 - Communicate with Russian revolutionary leader Sergei Nechaev led to her arrest and imprisonment.

1873 - Released and she settled in Kiev, where she joined the Kievan Insurgents, a revolutionary group of Mikhail Bakunin's anarchist supporters, becoming a respected leader of the movement.

1878 - Shot Trepov and wounded seriously.

1883 - Converted to Marxism and co-founded Emancipation of Labour group with Georgi Plekhanov and Pavel Axelrod.

- Commissioned to translate a number of Karl Marx's works into Russian.

1903 - Returned to Russia after the Revolution, but her interest in revolutionary politics waned.

1917 - Supported the Russian war effort during World War I and opposed the October Revolution.

1919 - She died on the 8th of May in Petrograd.