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Breshkovsky

American  
[bresh-kawf-skee, -kof-] / brɛʃˈkɔf ski, -ˈkɒf- /

noun

  1. Catherine, 1844–1934, Russian revolutionary of noble birth: called “the little grandmother of the Russian Revolution.”


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It would make everything simple and you'd be doing your bit, then, for Madame Breshkovsky!

From Happy House by Abbott, Jane D.

Catherine Breshkovsky, the Socialist "Grandmother of the Russian Revolution," though now an aged woman, lived long enough to bewail the fate of her country.

From The Red Conspiracy by Mereto, Joseph J.

Catherine Breshkovsky, "the little grandmother of the Russian revolution," visited Massachusetts this year and addressed a number of meetings arranged by the suffragists, including a large one in Faneuil Hall.

From The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI by Harper, Ida Husted

A message of love and admiration was sent to Mrs. Catherine Breshkovsky, "the grandmother of the Russian Revolution."

From The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V by Harper, Ida Husted

Her full name is Ekaterina Constantinovna Breshko-Breshkovskaya, but in America she is called Catherine Breshkovsky, and as such she will be known in these pages.

From A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines A Record of High Endeavour and Strange Adventure from 500 B.C. to 1920 A.D. by Edwards, Clayton

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