Yasneva-Golubeva Maria Petrovna (1861 – May 10, 1936) was a Russian and Soviet revolutionary and Bolshevik. She was born in the town of Vetluga, now in Nizhny Novgorod Region, into a noble family.[1]
The Path to Revolution
She graduated from the zemstvo women's teachers' seminary in Kostroma, where during her studies she joined the revolutionary circle of the "Jacobins." After the seminary she worked as a village teacher, conducting Narodnik propaganda. In 1891 she was exiled to Samara under open police surveillance, where that same year she met Vladimir Lenin.[1] By conviction she was a Narodnik; from 1901 she moved to Social Democratic positions, and in 1903 she joined the RSDLP(b).[1]
In 1903–1904 she served as secretary of the Saratov Committee of the RSDLP(b), while also delivering Iskra literature.[1][2] From late 1904 she lived in Saint Petersburg: in October 1905 meetings of the Petersburg Revolutionary Committee were held in her apartment, and in 1907 she organized an underground Bolshevik printing house in the city.[1]
After the Revolution of 1917
After the October Revolution she worked as a statistician at the Central Council of Factory and Plant Committees, then at the People's Commissariat of Justice and at the Petrograd Extraordinary Commission.[1][2] From 1920 to 1928 she served in the apparatus of the Central Committee of the VKP(b).[1] From 1928 she was retired. She died on May 10, 1936, in Moscow, and was buried there.[1]
The Nizhny Novgorod Connection
Maria Yasneva-Golubeva was born in Vetluga, a district town that is now part of Nizhny Novgorod Region.[1] The Nizhny Novgorod Biographical Encyclopedia lists her among the natives of the region.
External links
- Wikidata (Q16594384 — an entry in the free knowledge base)
Sources
- names52.ru — Yasneva-Golubeva Maria Petrovna
- unicat.nlb.by