Olga Matveevskaya
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. BiographyBorn in 1882, Matveevskaya grew up in a middle-class family and was educated at home.[1] 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.[1] 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.[2] She later died in a prison or prison camp.[3] References
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