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Olga Stepanovna Levashova

1837 – 1905

Russian revolutionary

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Lived 1837 – 1905 (aged 67–68). Olga Stepanovna Levashova was a Russian revolutionary.

Olga Stepanovna Levashova (, née ; 1837–1905) was a member of the Russian section of the International Workingmen's Association (IWMA) in Geneva, and financed the journal Narodnoye delo.

Levashova was active in the revolutionary Russian émigré community in Geneva. Nikolai Utin and Johann-Philipp Becker sponsored her membership into the Russian section of the International there. Along with Utin, his wife Natalia, Viktor and Yekaterina Bartenev, and Anton Trusov, she took part in the Basel congress of the IWMA.

In 1867, Nikolay Zhukovsky, her brother-in-law, convinced her to fund a newspaper he was planning with Mikhail Bakunin. Named Narodnoye delo, the first issue was published in September 1868. When conflicts arose in the émigré community about the direction of the paper, Levashova used her financial influence to press Bakunin to resign from the editorial board in favour of Utin.

She returned to Russia in 1874, to her estate in Kamenka, in Volga, where she hosted members of the liberal intelligentsia. His eldest daughter, Adelaide , married Stepan Vasilyevich Zinovyev .

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1837
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Died
1905
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Olga Stepanovna Zinovyeva

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Russian revolutionary (1837–1905)

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Olga Stepanovna Levashova was born in 1837.

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Olga Stepanovna Levashova died in 1905.

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Olga Stepanovna Levashova was a revolutionary.

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Olga Stepanovna Levashova was Russian.

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· Wikipedia: Olga Stepanovna Levashova

· Wikidata: Q110903341

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