Maria Alexandrovna Spiridonova was a Narodnik-inspired Russian revolutionary. In 1906, as a novice member of a local combat group of the Tambov Socialists-Revolutionaries (SRs), she assassinated a security official. Her subsequent abuse by police earned her enormous popularity with the opponents of Tsarism throughout the empire and even abroad.
Spiridonova before 1906
Spiridonova and Grigory Andreyevich Gershuni, founder of the SR Combat Organization (Akatuy 1906)
The Shesterka ("Six") photographed at the Omsk station during their triumphal transfer to Siberia (Spiridonova is the first on the left in the foreground)
The Shesterka ("Six") in exile at Akatuy (Spiridonova is the first on the left)
Socialist Revolutionary Party
The Socialist Revolutionary Party, was a major political party in late Imperial Russia, during both phases of the Russian Revolution, and in early Soviet Russia.
Kampf un kempfer, a Yiddish pamphlet published by the SRs exile branch in London, 1904
1917 SRs election poster whose caption in red reads партія соц.-рев. (in pre-1918 Russian), short for Party of the Socialist-Revolutionaries; the banner bears the party's motto Russian: Въ борьбѣ обрѣтешь ты право свое ("Through struggle you will attain your rights"); and the globe bears the slogan земля и воля ("land and freedom"), expressing the agrarian socialist ideology of the party.
