Olga Volkenstein
Olga Akimovna Volkenstein | |
|---|---|
Ольга Акимовна Волькенштейн | |
| Born | 27 February 1875 |
| Died | March 1942 (aged 67) Leningrad, Soviet Union (USSR) |
| Resting place | Piskarevsky Cemetery |
| Occupations | journalist, suffragist and a leader of the women's rights movement |
| Employer | Russian Thought |
| Organization | Union for Women's Equality |
| Political party | Social Revolutionary Party |
Olga Akimovna Volkenstein (Russian: Ольга Акимовна Волькенштейн; 27 February 1875 – March 1942) (also spelled Volkenshteyn) was a Russian journalist, suffragist and a leader of the women's rights movement in pre-revolutionary Russia.
Early life
Volkenstein was born in Kishinev on 27 February 1875.[1][2] Her father was military doctor Akim Filippovich Volkenstein, who was granted hereditary nobility in 1897, and her mother was Augusta Aronovna Volkestein (née Rabinovich). Her younger brother Fyodor, born in 1876, became a prominent lawyer.[2]
Career
Volkenstein worked as a journalist for the newspaper Russian Thought. She was a member of the Saint Petersburg Literary Society. She published under both her own name and various pseudonyms including: V.; V—n, O.; V—ъ, O.; Viktorova, O. I.; O. V.; Olgovich and W—n, O.[1][3]
Activism
Volkenstein was a left wing committee member of the Union for Women's Equality,[4] which demanded equal political and voting rights for women. She hoped to mobilize female factory workers to the cause,[5] was critical of the "well-to-do ladies" of the Union,[6] and organised lecture tours to give talks on the early history of the women's movement.[7]
She served as a delegate to the International Woman Suffrage Alliance (IWSA) Congress in Copenhagen in 1906,[6] and organised the first All-Russian Women's Congress. The Union was succeeded by the League for Women's Equality. Volkenstein also became a member of the Social Revolutionary Party.[8]
Death
Volkenstein died in Leningrad, Soviet Union (USSR) in March 1942 and was buried at Piskarevsky Memorial Cemetery.
References
- ^ a b "Волькенштейн Ольга Акимовна (текст)". feb-web.ru. Archived from the original on 31 December 2013. Retrieved 21 March 2025.
- ^ a b Kovarskaya, Brigitta Petrovna. Замечательные люди Бессарабии [Remarkable People of Bessarabia]. Moscow: KUBiK. p. 238. ISBN 978-5-91818-958-0. Archived from the original on 7 August 2024. Retrieved 21 March 2025.
- ^ Masanov I. F. (1960) Dictionary of pseudonyms of Russian writers, scientists and public figures. Vol. 4. Moscow. p. 112.
- ^ McShane, Anne (2019) Bringing the revolution to the women of the East. The Zhenotdel experience in Soviet Central Asia through the lens of Kommunistka. Archived 2 June 2020 at the Wayback Machine PhD thesis, University of Glasgow. p. 23. Retrieved 21 March 2025.
- ^ Yvert-Jalu, Hélène (2008). Femmes et famille en Russie, d'hier et d'aujourd'hui (in French). Sextant. p. 86. ISBN 978-2-84978-021-3. Archived from the original on 2 June 2025. Retrieved 21 March 2025.
- ^ a b Stites, Richard (13 July 2021). The Women's Liberation Movement in Russia Feminism, Nihilsm, and Bolshevism, 1860-1930. Princeton University Press. p. 213. ISBN 9781400843275. Archived from the original on 2 June 2025. Retrieved 21 March 2025.
- ^ Markkola, Pirjo; Nevala-Nurmi, Seija-Leena; Sulkunen, Irma (18 December 2008). Suffrage, Gender and Citizenship – International Perspectives on Parliamentary Reforms. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 153. ISBN 978-1-4438-0301-4. Archived from the original on 2 June 2025. Retrieved 21 March 2025.
- ^ Sharp, Ingrid; Stibbe, Matthew (14 February 2011). Aftermaths of War: Women's Movements and Female Activists, 1918-1923. BRILL. p. 161. ISBN 978-90-04-19172-3.