Olga Liubatovich

Olga Lyubatovich
Born	1854 Russia
Died	1917 Tbilisi, Russia

Olga Spiridonovna Lyubatovich (Russian: Ольга Спиридоновна Любатович; 1854–1917) was a Russian revolutionary and member of Narodnaya Volya.

Lyubatovich was the daughter of political a refugee from Montenegro, born 1854. She wanted to study medicine in order to become a doctor, which was impossible for a woman to do in Russia. For this reason she went to study in Zürich with her sister Vera in 1871.

Lyubatovich met Vera Figner in Zürich where she was recruited into the Revolutionary Socialist movement. She joined Pan-Russian social revolutionary group and in 1875 returned to Russia where she attempted to spread socialist propaganda among industry workers.

She was then arrested in Tula and kept in prison for two years before appearing in court. She was found guilty of distributing illegal publications. She was sentenced to nine years hard labour. But this was reduced to banishment to Siberia. In Tobolsk she was able to employ her medical knowledge to help the local people, where she became known as the "miracle worker".

In 1876 Lyubatovich escaped from Siberia and went into hiding in St. Petersburg. There she joined a unit of Land and Liberty group led by Sergey Stepnyak-Kravchinsky and Nikolai Morozov.

Lyubatovich also spent six months in Geneva where she lived with a group of émigré who had escaped from Russian authorities. This included Vera Zasulich, whose attempt to murder General Trepov, the Police chief of St. Petersburg, had made her a national figure in the revolutionary movement.

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