A Beautiful Nihilist

A Female Nihilist, a collection of writings about women in the Russian Nihilist movement, published by Corvus Editions, is available for download in pdf.

• Joseph Verey, “Vera Sassulitch” (1880)
• Leon de Tinseau, “A Beautiful Nihilist” (fiction, 1892)
• Gesya Gelfman (1852-1882)
• Cruel Punishments (Goukoffski, 1979)
• Russian Revolutionary Heroines (Sophia Bardina, 1881)
• Mentioned in passing
• May Beals-Hoffpauir, “Sketches of Russian Heroines. I. Vera Figner”
• Joaquin Miller, “Sophia Perovskaya” (1881)
• George Barlow, “Sophia Perovskaia” (1895)
• “Extraordinary escape of a young Nihilist girl…” (1879)

General & Introductory

• Introducing The Beautiful Nihilist: Representations of Revolutionary Women
• Ella Norraikow, “Woman’s Share in Russian Nihilism” (1891)
• “The Term ‘Nihilist’” (1887)
• Voltairine de Cleyre, “Some Nihilists I Have Met” (1893)

Mlle. Achristoff

• “The Nihilist Rebellion” (1879) [coming soon]

Sophie Bardin

• “Russian Revolutionary Heroines” (1881)

Vera Figner

• Ella Norraikow, “Woman’s Share in Russian Nihilism” (1891)
• “A Beautiful Nihilist” (1892)
• “Imprisoned Twenty Years” (1904)
• Hubert Church, “Vera Figner” [poem] (1908)
• May Beals-Hoffpauir, “Sketches of Russian Heroines. I. Vera Figner” (1909)

Mme. Frowdeinki

• “Revival of Nihilism” (1893)

Gesya Gelfman

• “A Horrible Story” (1881)

Olga Gobieslawska

• “Extraordinary Escape of a Young Nihilist Girl” (1879)

Olga Gontcharenko

• “Beautiful Nihilist Girl” (1890)
• “A Young Nihilist Woman” (1890)

“The girl Goukoffski, aged 15”

• “Cruel Punishments” (1879)

Sophie Gunsberg

• “Plot of a Beautiful Nihilist” (1891)

Olga Ivanovsky

• “Suspected Nihilists” (1890)
• “A Female Nihilist” (1891)

Wanda Krahelska-Filipowicz

• “Beautiful Nihilist Slays; Weds; Tracked, Is Caught” (1907)

Olga Lubotovitch

• Stepniak, “A Female Nihilist” (1886)

Sophie Perovskaya

• “The Stuff of Which Nihilist Martyrs are Made” (1881)
• Joaquin Miller, “Sophia Perovskaya” [poem] (1881)
• Sir Henry Parks, “The Beauteous Terrorist” [poem] (1885)
• “The Beautiful Nihilist” (1889)
• Ella Norraikow, “Woman’s Share in Russian Nihilism” (1891)
• George Barlow, “Sophia Perovskaia” [poem] (1895)
• Ernest Tissot, “Une Nihiliste: Sophie Perovskaia” (1895) [coming soon]
• Tragic Stories from Russia (1905)

Vera Sassulitch

• Joseph Verey, “Vera Sassulitch” [poem] (1880)

Misc. Clippings

• “Another beautiful nihilist…” (1887)
• “Arrested as Nihilists” (1891)
• “Tragedy in San Francisco” (1893)
• “A Nihilist Crime” (1897)
• “A Female Nihilist” (1902)
• [Mentioned in passing]

Fiction

• Leon de Tinseau, “A Beautiful Nihilist” (1892)
• “A Hunt to Death” (1892)

OFFSITE LINKS

Drama:

• Oscar Wilde, Vera; or, The Nihilists (1881)
• Stepniak, The New Convert (Novoobrashchennyi)(1897)

Fiction:

• Ernest Lavigne, A Female Nihilist (1880)
• Charles H. Eden, George Donnington; or, In the Bear’s Grip (1885, 3 volumes) [Google Books]
• Philip May, Love: The Reward (1885, 3 volumes) [Google Books]
• Loiuse Gagneur, A Nihilist Princess (1886)
• Kathleen O’Meara, Narka, the Nihilist (1887)
• Joseph Hatton, By Order of the Czar (1890)
• Richard Henry Savage, My Official Wife (1891)
• St. George Rathborne, Major Matterson of Kentucky (1894)
• William Le Queux, Stolen Souls (1895)
• Thomas Patrick Deegan, The Rescue of Victoria: The Beautiful Nihilist (1909)

Nonfiction:

• The Break-up of Nihilism in Russia. Female Nihilists (1885)