Mariya Aleksandrovna Spiridonova

Japanese: スピリドーノワ（英語表記）Mariya Aleksandrovna Spiridonova

1884‐1941
A Russian female revolutionary and leader of the Left SR Party. Daughter of an aristocrat from Tambov Province. She joined the SR Party in 1905 while studying at a nursing school. In 1906, she shot and assassinated General Rzhenovsky, a repressor of the peasant movement in Tambov Province, at a train station. She was sentenced to death by a military tribunal, but her sentence was later commuted to life imprisonment and she was sent to a Siberian prison. She was released by the February Revolution in 1917, and on her return to St. Petersburg she became a central figure in the left wing of the SR Party and supported the October Revolution. She played a leading role at the First Congress of the Left SR Party in November 1917, and became one of its highest leaders.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

1884‐1941
ロシアの女性革命家，左派エス･エル党指導者。タンボフ県の貴族の娘。1905年，看護婦養成所在学中エス･エル党に入党。06年タンボフ県農民運動の抑圧者ルジェノフスキー将軍を駅構内で狙撃し，暗殺した。軍事裁判で死刑判決を受けるが，のち終身懲役に減刑され，シベリアの監獄に送られた。17年，二月革命によって解放され，ペテルブルグに戻るとエス･エル党左派の中心となり，十月革命を支持した。17年11月の第1回左派エス･エル党大会では指導的役割を果たし，最高指導部の一人となった。

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