11 Facts About Irina Kakhovskaya

Irina Konstantinovna Kakhovskaya was a Narodnik-inspired Russian revolutionary.

Irina Kakhovskaya was born into the family of a land surveyor and a national teacher.

Soon Kakhovskaya changed her views and joined the far-left Union of Socialist Revolutionary Maximalists.

Irina Kakhovskaya served her sentence first in the Novinsky Women's Prison in Moscow, then was sent to the Maltsev Prison of the Nerchinsk Katorga in Transbaikal, where she arrived on 16 July 1908.

Irina Kakhovskaya formed a special friendship with Spiridonova and Izmailovich, a bond of political and personal sisterhood that would last throughout their lives.

In 1914, Irina Kakhovskaya was amnestied, and her prison term was converted into internal exile first to Buryatia then back to Transbaikal.

Irina Kakhovskaya decided to fulfill the order to the end and kill the hetman, which was scheduled for the funeral of the German General, but Skoropadsky left the funeral before her arrival.

Irina Kakhovskaya was tortured and interrogated and then sent to prison and sentenced to death.

In Rostov, where the attempt was to take place, Irina Kakhovskaya continued to promote the ideas of Left Socialist Revolutionaries.

Irina Kakhovskaya was released in February 1947, lived in Kansk, where she was last arrested in early January 1948, was held in the Krasnoyarsk Prison, after which in 1949, she was returned to Kansk as an exile.

In 1957, she was rehabilitated in the 1937 case, as was Izmailovich, but steadfast Irina Kakhovskaya kept insisting in vain on the full rehabilitation of both her slain comrades.