Konkordiya Samoilova
Russian Bolshevichka
Konkordiya Nikolavna Samoilova (née Gromova) (Russian: Конкордия Николаевна Самойлова; 1876 – June 3, 1921) was a Bolshevik revolutionary and a founding editor of the Russian newspaper, Pravda, in 1912. She was a revolutionary and activist for women workers both before and after the Bolshevik Revolution. She devoted her life to the cause of proletarian women. Feeling strongly as a Communist, she sometimes used the name "Natasha Bolshevikova".
Early life and education
Samoilova's father was an Orthodox priest in Irkutsk, Siberia, and she had a sister, Kaleriia.
Samoilova graduated with a gold medal from gymnasium in Irkutsk. She took part in her first demonstration in February 1897 while a university student, studying Bestuzhev Courses in St. Petersburg. In 1901, she was expelled from school after three months in prison. She returned home to Irkutsk until early 1902, when she received a passport and left for Paris to study Marxism at the Vol'naaia Russkaia shkola obshchestvennykh nauk (Free Russian School of Social Sciences) where the lecturers included Vladimir Lenin and Julius Martov and eventually joined their newspaper Iskra as a journalist.
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