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13 people

By birth A–Z List Cards

Pyotr Lavrovich Lavrov Пётр Лаврович Лавров Foundational theorist of Narodnik philosophy whose Historical Letters declared the intelligentsia's 'debt to the people' Scholarship and theory 1823–1900
Nikolai Konstantinovich Mikhailovsky Николай Константинович Михайловский The narodnik intelligentsia's 'ruler of thoughts,' founder of the subjective method in sociology and the theory of heroes and the crowd Scholarship and theory 1842–1904
Pyotr Nikitich Tkachev Пётр Никитич Ткачёв The Russian Jacobin Narodnik who first theorized a conspiratorial vanguard dictatorship, precursor to Leninist party doctrine Scholarship and theory 1844–1886
Catherine Konstantinovna Breshkovsky Екатерина Константиновна Брешко-Брешковская 'Grandmother of the Russian Revolution' who endured 44 years of prison and exile; co-founder of the Socialist Revolutionary Party Social movements and organizing · Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 1844–1934
Mark Andreyevich Natanson Марк Андреевич Натансон The great unifier of the Russian revolutionary movement, from the Chaikovtsy to the Left SRs Political and party leadership · Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 1850–1919
Pavel Borisovich Axelrod Павел Борисович Аксельрод Theorist of the mass workers' party: the argument that lost to Lenin's vanguard Political and party leadership · Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 1850–1928
Andrei Ivanovich Zhelyabov Андрей Иванович Желябов The Narodnaya Volya leader who organized the assassination of Alexander II and declared his party's creed to the court that condemned him Political and party leadership · Narodnaya Volya 1851–1881
Nikolai Ivanovich Kibalchich Николай Иванович Кибальчич Narodnaya Volya's chief explosives expert who designed the bombs that killed Alexander II and sketched a manned rocket from his death cell Social movements and organizing · Narodnaya Volya 1853–1881
Sofia Lvovna Perovskaya Софья Львовна Перовская Narodnaya Volya leader who directed the tsar's assassination with a white handkerchief; first woman executed for a political crime in Russia Social movements and organizing · Narodnaya Volya 1853–1881
Georgi Valentinovich Plekhanov Георгий Валентинович Плеханов The father of Russian Marxism: against his own pupils’ revolution Scholarship and theory · Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) 1856–1918
Vladimir Lvovich Burtsev Владимир Львович Бурцев 'Sherlock Holmes of the Revolution' who serially exposed Tsarist secret police agents provocateurs Scholarship and theory 1862–1942
Alexander Ilyich Ulyanov Александр Ильич Ульянов Lenin's elder brother: a gold-medal zoologist who turned from studying worms to building bombs for the assassination of Alexander III Social movements and organizing · Narodnaya Volya 1866–1887
Stepan Nikolayevich Khalturin Степан Николаевич Халтурин The carpenter-revolutionary who bombed the Winter Palace and founded Russia's first political workers' organization Social movements and organizing · Narodnaya Volya 1856/1857–1882