Olga Volkenshteyn

Olga Akimovna Volkenstein (also spelled Volkenshteyn; ; 27 February 1875 – March 1942) was a Russian journalist, suffragist and a leader of the women's rights movement in pre-revolutionary Russia.

Early life Volkenstein was born in Kishinev on 27 February 1875. Her father was military doctor , who was granted hereditary nobility in 1897, and her mother was Augusta Aronovna Volkestein . Her younger brother , born in 1876, became a prominent lawyer.

Activism Volkenstein was a left wing committee member of the Union for Women's Equality, which demanded equal political and voting rights for women. She hoped to mobilize female factory workers to the cause, was critical of the "well-to-do ladies" of the Union, and organised lecture tours to give talks on the early history of the women's movement.

She served as a delegate to the International Woman Suffrage Alliance (IWSA) Congress in Copenhagen in 1906,

Death Volkenstein died in Leningrad, Soviet Union (USSR) in March 1942 and was buried at Piskarevsky Memorial Cemetery.