Sarra Ravich
Soviet revolutionary (1879–1957)
Sarra Naumovna Ravich (Russian: Са́рра Нау́мовна Ра́вич; pseudonym, Olga; 1879–1957) was a figure in the Russian revolutionary movement. She was the first wife of Grigory Zinoviev.
Biography
She was born on August 1, 1879, in Vitebsk into a Jewish family. Her father was a merchant, Nohim Leib Ravich, and her mother was Golda, née Yakhnim. She became a member of the RSDLP (Russian Social Democratic Labour Party) in 1903. In June 1906, she moved to Paris, where she spent 6 months before relocating to Geneva. There, she met Grigory Zinoviev and became his wife (though their marriage was brief). She studied at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Geneva.
In 1908, she was arrested in Munich in connection with a case involving a robbery in Tiflis, during which she tried to exchange banknotes stolen during the heist. By no later than 1911, she married economist Vyacheslav Alekseevich Karpinsky.
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