Maria Perveeva

Maria Dmitrievna Perveeva (, 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.

Biography Perveeva was born in Zadonsk in 1879. She trained to be a teacher and became involved in self-education, but was arrested in 1894 and 1901 for her activities. 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. After the establishment of the Soviet Union, she became a member of the Society of Former Political Prisoners and Exiled Settlers, 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.