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Olga Aleksandrovna Matveevskaya (Russian: Ольга Александровна Матвеевская, born 1882) was a Russian educator and politician. In 1917 she was one of the ten women elected to the Constituent Assembly, the country's first female parliamentarians.

Biography

Born in 1882, Matveevskaya grew up in a middle-class family and was educated at home. She later worked as a teacher in Pryluky. She joined the Socialist Revolutionary Party and was under police supervision since 1907, later being exiled to Arkhangelsk.

In 1917 she was a Socialist-Revolutionary candidate in Oryol in the Constituent Assembly elections, and was one of ten women elected to the legislature. She later died in a prison or prison camp.

References

1. ^ Члены Всероссийского Учредительного Собрания: Биографический справочник М Hrono
2. Rochelle Goldberg Ruthchild (2010) Equality and Revolution p235
3. Francisca de Haan, Maria Bucur & Krassimira Daskalova (2007) Aspasia 2007, Volume 1 p35

[[Category:20th-century Russian women educators

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