Yelizaveta Kovalskaya

Yelizaveta Nikolayevna Kovalskaya (Solntseva) (Russian: Елизавета Николаевна Ковальская (Солнцева); (07.17 (29).1851 or 1849 – 1943) was a Russian revolutionary, narodnik, and founding member of Black Repartition. Kovalskaya was the illegitimate daughter of a wealthy land owner, who owned both her and her mother. In 1857, Kovalskaya's father agreed to grant her and her mother their freedom. When he died he unexpectedly left his large estate to his illegitimate daughter. Kovalskaya went on to join the Kharkov society for the promotion of literacy. She was inspired by the women's movement in the 1860s and so she was always interested in feminist and socialist views. Impressed by the work of Robert Owen, she used one of her inherited...