Quo Fuit places 3 dated presences for Maria Spiridonova across 3 places, from 1917 to 1923.
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Maria Alexandrovna Spiridonova (16 October 1884 – 11 September 1941) was a Narodnik-inspired Russian revolutionary.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where Maria Spiridonova was documented, and when
May 1917month
Moscowattested“Spiridonova traveled from Siberia to Moscow to attend the 3rd National Congress of the Party of Socialists-Revolutionaries (the SRs) late in May 1917, but she was not elected to the governing Central Committee of the party.”source: Wikipedia: Maria Spiridonova
May 1917month
Siberiaattested“Spiridonova traveled from Siberia to Moscow to attend the 3rd National Congress of the Party of Socialists-Revolutionaries (the SRs) late in May 1917, but she was not elected to the governing Central Committee of the party.”source: Wikipedia: Maria Spiridonova
1923 to 1928period
Kalugaattested“She spent the rest of the 1920s in Kaluga (1923–25), Samarkand (1925–28) and Tashkent (1928–30).”source: Wikipedia: Maria Spiridonova
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16 January 1906exact date
Borisoglebskmentioned“She stalked Luzhenovsky for several days, and finally got her chance at the Borisoglebsk railway station on 16 January 1906.”source: Wikipedia: Maria Spiridonova
12 February 1906exact date
Saint Petersburgmentioned“The letter was published on 12 February 1906 by Rus, a liberal newspaper in Saint Petersburg, and soon taken up by others, becoming an immediate sensation with their readers.”source: Wikipedia: Maria Spiridonova
4 July 1918exact date
Moscowmentioned“Unity between Left SRs and Bolsheviks turned to rivalry over the future of the revolution and a competition ensued for control of the 5th Congress of Soviets, scheduled to begin in Moscow on 4 July 1918.”source: Wikipedia: Maria Spiridonova
6 July 1918exact date
Petrogradmentioned“Historian Alexander Rabinowitch summarized the prelude to what he would later term "the suicide of the Left SRs" in his work on the first year of Soviet rule in Petrograd: On 6 July 1918, two members of the Left SR Party, Iakov Bliumkin…”source: Wikipedia: Maria Spiridonova
1937year
NKVDmentioned“In her 1937 letter to the NKVD (see below), she claimed also to have directed the attack (even showing a sort of "professional' pride).”source: Wikipedia: Maria Spiridonova
11 September 1941exact date
Medvedev Forest massacrementioned“On 11 September 1941 (three months after the German invasion of the USSR), Spiridonova, Izmailovich, Mayorov and over 150 other political prisoners (among them Christian Rakovsky and Olga Kameneva) were executed by order of Stalin in the…”source: Wikipedia: Maria Spiridonova
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