Breshkovsky

[ bresh-kawf-skee, -kof- ]

noun

1. Catherine, 1844–1934, Russian revolutionary of noble birth: called “the little grandmother of the Russian Revolution.”

Example Sentences

He joined the Narodnaia Volia or Party of the People's Will�members of this party are better known as the Nihilists�which was led by Prince Peter Kropotkin, Catherine Breshkovsky, Nicholas Tchaikovsky.

From Time Magazine Archive

Madame Breshkovsky, the little Grandmother of the Russian Revolution, had made several visits to the University, and Anne, with the others, had listened over and over to her vivid, heartrending stories of the suffering needs of the children of the real Russia.

From Project Gutenberg

Anne had not consulted her guardian before she had impulsively enlisted her services in Madame Breshkovsky's cause.

From Project Gutenberg

It would make everything simple and you'd be doing your bit, then, for Madame Breshkovsky!

From Project Gutenberg

Catherine Breshkovsky, "the little grandmother of the Russian revolution," visited Massachusetts this year and addressed a number of meetings arranged by the suffragists, including a large one in Faneuil Hall.

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