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Yekaterina Breshko (1844-1934) was a populist of the earliest hour and later became one of the founders of the PSR and the Combat Organisation. In 1917 she was the leader of the ‘Right’ fraction of the party, which advocated co-operation with the Provisional Government. Yekaterino Breshko was nicknamed the “grandmother of the Russian revolution. She was of noble descent, but after her conviction and exile to Siberia she was inscribed into the peasant estate in 1891. Breshko was involved in revolutionary agitation among the peasantry. She was betrayed by the double agent Yevno Azef, who led the Combat Organization, and remained in exile until the revolution of 1917. Following the Bolshevik take-over she went into exile in 1918. (Collection PSR, IISG)
Yekaterina Breshko, portrait at a later age