1. Fanny Efimovna Kaplan was a Russian Socialist-Revolutionary who attempted to assassinate Vladimir Lenin.
20 Facts About Fanny Kaplan
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Fanny Kaplan was arrested and executed by the Cheka in 1918.
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Fanny Kaplan's father was a teacher, and she had seven siblings.
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Fanny Kaplan was sometimes known by the given name Dora.
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Fanny Kaplan was home educated and soon left home to work as a milliner in Odessa.
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Fanny Kaplan became a political revolutionary at an early age and joined a socialist group, the Socialist Revolutionaries.
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In 1906, when she was 16 years old, Fanny Kaplan was arrested in Kiev over her involvement in a terrorist bomb plot to blow up the city's governor, Vladimir Sukhomlinov.
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Fanny Kaplan was captured after a bomb she and her romantic partner were working on accidentally exploded.
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Fanny Kaplan was committed for life to the katorga, a hard labour prison camp.
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Fanny Kaplan served in the Maltsev and Akatuy prisons of Nerchinsk katorga, Siberia, where she lost her sight, which was partially restored later.
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Fanny Kaplan was released on March 3,1917, after the February Revolution overthrew the imperial government.
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Fanny Kaplan decided to assassinate Lenin because she considered him "a traitor to the Revolution".
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Fanny Kaplan feared that others might be planning to kill him and refused to leave the security of the Kremlin to seek medical attention.
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Fanny Kaplan referenced the Bolsheviks' growing authoritarianism, citing their forcible shutdown of the Constituent Assembly in January 1918, the elections to which they had lost.
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Fanny Kaplan's corpse was bundled into a barrel and set alight.
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Grigory Semyonov, a military commander in the SR who later turned state's evidence against the group, testified in 1922 that Fanny Kaplan had been a member of his organization and that he regarded her as the "best person to carry out the attack on Lenin".
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Semion Lyandres went so far as to argue that Fanny Kaplan was not even an SR.
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An official decree announcing the Red Terror was issued only hours after the Fanny Kaplan shooting and called for an "all-out struggle against enemies of the revolution".
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The life of Fanny Kaplan has been portrayed in a Ukrainian film My Grandmother Fanny Kaplan directed by Olena Demyanenko.
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Pamela Adlon's character in History of the World, Part II, Fanny Mudman, is loosely based on Kaplan, most notably when she attempts to kill Lenin.