1. Vera Zasulich is widely known for her correspondence with Karl Marx, in which she put into question the necessity of a capitalist industrialisation prior to socialism, in the context of the fact that there already were living farmer communities in Russia that had developed practices and cultures that had a communist component.
Kolenkina's attempt against Zhelekhovskii failed, but Vera Zasulich used a British Bulldog revolver and shot and seriously wounded Trepov.
However, Vera Zasulich had a very good lawyer, who turned the case on its head so that it "very soon became obvious that it was Colonel Trepov rather than his would-be assassin who was really being tried".
The group commissioned Vera Zasulich to translate a number of Karl Marx's works into Russian, which contributed to the growth of Marxist influence among Russian intellectuals in the 1880s and 1890s and was one of the factors that led to the creation of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party in 1898.
However, Iskra supporters unexpectedly split during the Congress and formed two factions, Lenin's Bolsheviks and Martov's Mensheviks, Vera Zasulich siding with the latter.
Vera Zasulich returned to Russia after the 1905 Revolution, but her interest in revolutionary politics waned.
Vera Zasulich entered the independent Yedinstvo-faction of her old friend Plekhanov in early 1914.
Vera Zasulich opposed the October Revolution of 1917, stating that a "premature revolution" was "worse than no revolution at all".
Vera Zasulich was accommodated by two sisters who lived in the same courtyard, but she developed pneumonia and died in Petrograd on 8 May 1919.
Vera Zasulich was a curious person and a curiously attractive one.
Vera Zasulich wrote very slowly and suffered actual tortures of creation.
Vera Zasulich remained to the end the old radical intellectual on whom fate grafted Marxism.
Vera Zasulich's articles show that she had adopted to a remarkable degree the theoretic elements of Marxism.