Mariya Kalyuzhnaya

Maria Vasilyevna Kalyuzhnaya (; 1864 – 7 November 1889) was a Ukrainian Narodnik revolutionary. She was arrested in 1882 for her involvement in the printing operations of Narodnaya Volya, and again in 1884 for attempting to assassinate a Gendarme. She committed suicide by poisoning in the Kara katorga, in protest against the abuse of imprisoned women by the prison authorities.

Biography Maria Vasilyevna Kalyuzhnaya was born in 1864, in Lebedyn, a city in the Kharkov Governorate of the Russian Empire. She was the daughter of a merchant and the younger sister of . She studied at women's schools in Kharkov and Romny, graduating in 1880.

She joined the Narodniks and was arrested in Odesa in 1882, on charges of printing subversive literature for Narodnaya Volya. The military administration sent her to live under house arrest with her mother in Okhtyrka, but she managed to escape. After learning about this, her brother Ivan also committed suicide by poisoning.