She used her family home in Minsk to host PSR meetings, during which they plotted attacks against Russian Imperial government officials.

Izmailovich herself attempted to assassinate the governor of Minsk Pavel Kurlov [ru], who was responsible for pogroms in the city, but her shots failed to hit him.

In prison, she found out that her sister Katerina Izmailovich [ru] had died attempting to assassinate the Russian naval commander Grigoriy Chukhnin.

She was briefly freed by the Russian Revolution and became an official in the Soviet government, but following the Left SR Uprising, she was imprisoned again by the Bolsheviks.

[1] She was the daughter of the Belarusian military officer Adolf Izmailovich,[2] a brigadier general who commanded the 4th Artillery Corps of the Imperial Russian Army.

[3] Izmailovich studied at the Saint Petersburg Imperial University, where she first joined the Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR).

[4] While their father was in the Russian Far East, fighting in the Russo-Japanese War, Aleksandra and Katerina Izmailovich used their home in Minsk as the Belarusian headquarters of the PSR.

[3] From their house, the SR executive committee organised the party's activities, which Aleksandra and Katerina carried out while disguised as servants, farmers or vendors.

[7] Shortly afterwards, the Minsk branch of the PSR received orders from the party's central committee to cease all terrorist activities.

As state terrorism against the revolutionary movement increased, the PSR central committee reversed its order and gave permission for the Minsk branch to resume terrorist attacks.

Plans were put on hold after Katerina was arrested, with Aleksandra Izmailovich convincing the Minsk PSR to break her out of prison before assassinating Kurlov.

[12] Izmailovich and Pulikhov, respectively armed with a revolver and a bomb, entered the church yard as the funeral took place inside.

[14] On the morning of 15 January, Izmailovich and Pulikhov were brought into the police station's courtyard, where they were to be identified by an assembled group of house servants.

[15] Izmailovich was given bread before being taken to her cell, where she heard the other imprisoned women singing revolutionary songs, including "La Marseillaise".

[19] On 29 January, her comrade informed her that the Black Sea Fleet commander Grigorir Chukhnin had been wounded in an assassination attempt.

She later received false news that Maria Spiridonova had been killed attempting to assassinate Gavriil Luzhenovsky [ru], which contributed to her sadness.

[24] Her lawyer advised her to call witnesses of the 18 October events, who could testify about the massacre of peaceful protestors ordered by Kurlov.

[27] In his opening argument, Izmailovich's lawyer pointed out that officers in that courtroom had ordered their soldiers to shoot peaceful protestors in Minsk on 18 October 1905 and asked why they had not been charged with murder.

[28] After a few minutes of deliberation, the judges found Izmailovich and Pulikhov guilty of the charges of conspiracy to murder and sentenced them to execution by hanging.

The judge agreed and she testified that he had nothing to do with the assassination, that he was not a member of their political party, and that she knew the real name of the bomb thrower.

One day, she was taken to the recreation room, where she met a number of other women who had attempted to assassinate government officials: Mariya Shkolnik, who had attacked Chernihiv governor Alexei Khvostov; Lydia Ezerskaya [ru], who had assassinated interior minister Vyacheslav von Plehve; and Rebecca Fialka [ru], who had been arrested while making bombs.

[42] In April, Maria Spiridonova and Anastasia Bitsenko, the respective assassins of Gavrill Luzehnovsky and Viktor Sakharov, were transferred to Butyrka.

[46] Izmailovich quickly came to clash with Spiridonova, who she believed had pursued individual fame at the expense of the cause of revolutionary socialism.

[54] Izmailovich was amazed by the emotions displayed by the people when they saw the six women, as some broke down in tears or gave them anything from flowers and copper coins to jewellery.

[61] While in the Maltsev katorga, in 1908, Izmailovich wrote two long letters that formed the main primary source for information on her and her sister's revolutionary activities.

[72] Under constant police surveillance, Izmailovich cared for Spiridonova at a trade union's dacha in Malakhovka, until she was rearrested in 1923 and exiled to Kaluga.

[75] Izmailovich, Kakhovskaya and Spiridonova were then transferred to political exile in Ufa, where they were kept under house arrest and subjected to constant surveillance.

[1] Alongside Maria Spiridonova, Fruma Frumkina [ru] and Dora Brilliant, Izmailovich has been recognised as one of the most prominent female terrorists of the 1905 Revolution.

[84] Historian Oleg Budnitskii [ru] depicted Izmailovich as a romantic who had pursued terrorism in order to overcome the boredom of Russian aristocratic life.

[85] Writer Semion Lyandres [ru] believed Izmailovich to have been driven to terrorism by mental illness, although he provided no information to support his claim, leading scholar Nadezda Petrusenko to conclude he was engaging in gender stereotyping.