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Gesya Gelfman
Gesya Mironovna Gelfman (Гельфман, Геся Мироновна in Russian) (between 1852 and 1855 — 2.1(13).1882), Russian revolutionary, member of Narodnaya Volya.
Born into a Jewish family, Gelfman left it at the age of 16. In the early 1870s, she was an active member of several revolutionary clubs in Kiev. In 1877, during the Trial of the Fifty , Gelfman was sentenced to 2 years in the Litovsky Castle . On March 14, 1879, she was sent into exile to the province of Novgorod, from where she would escape and join Narodnaya Volya in Petersburg in 1879. During the Pervomartovtsi trial of 1881, Gelfman was sentenced to death by hanging. However, her execution was delayed due to her pregnancy and exchanged for an indefinite period of katorga in 1882, thanks to the pro-Gelfman anti-execution campaign in the foreign press.
Gelfman died in detention in 1882.
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