Sophia Lvovna Perovskaya (1853 - 1881) Russian revolutionary and a member of the revolutionary organization Narodnaya Volya. She helped orchestrate the assassination of Alexander II of Russia, the most reformist Tsar in history, for which she was executed by hanging.

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