SMASHABLE TYPES OF WOMEN.
•' The remarkable types of Nihilist women ara well-known. Vera Ssssulitch, whose shot inaugurated terrorism, was the most modest of her sex, In the Court, room she blushed when she perceived anyone staring at her, Lydy Figner, a charming lady and an accomplished singer, got her .eight years in tho Siberian mines by sitting irfthe parlor and playing the piano for weary :liours, trying to drown the noise made by the secret printing press in tho next room. Anna Lebedeff, a priest's daughter, in the disguise of a wife of a switchman, lived in awash house on the railroad, and was found on a box .filled with dynamite, oljatting with the switchman. Sophy Ferorskays, the daughter of a General and Senator, who declined the dignity of maid of honour to the Empress, and entered the Nihilist fraternity dug the Moscow mine, and directed the late Czar's assasination. Sophy Bardin,,who was welcomed as a .shining star in the literary horizon, wrote a tew poemß which, though gemß of Eussian literature, were treasonable, and the singing of them was a State crime.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1073, 13 May 1882, Page 2
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183SMASHABLE TYPES OF WOMEN. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1073, 13 May 1882, Page 2
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