Olga Matveevskaya
Olga Matveevskaya | |
|---|---|
| Member of the Constituent Assembly | |
| In office 1918 | |
| Constituency | Oryol |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1882 |
Olga Aleksandrovna Matveevskaya (Russian: Ольга Александровна Матвеевская, born 1882) was a Russian educator and politician. In 1917 she was one of the ten women elected to the Constituent Assembly, the country's first female parliamentarians.
Biography[edit]
Born in 1882, Matveevskaya grew up in a middle-class family and was educated at home.[1] She later worked as a teacher in Pryluky. She joined the Socialist Revolutionary Party and was under police supervision since 1907, later being exiled to Arkhangelsk.[1]
In 1917 she was a Socialist-Revolutionary candidate in Oryol in the Constituent Assembly elections, and was one of ten women elected to the legislature.[2] She later died in a prison or prison camp.[3]
References[edit]
- ^ a b Члены Всероссийского Учредительного Собрания: Биографический справочник М Hrono
- ^ Rochelle Goldberg Ruthchild (2010) Equality and Revolution p235
- ^ Francisca de Haan, Maria Bucur & Krassimira Daskalova (2007) Aspasia 2007, Volume 1 p35
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