Anna Shabanova

When still a young woman she joined a radical political group which was critical of the Czar and in 1865 was arrested and imprisoned for six months.

She moved to Helsinki, Finland to study there but returned in 1873 when a new women's medical course started in St.

[1] Shabanova became a doctor of medicine after earning her degree at the Higher Women's Medical Courses of Saint Petersburg in 1878.

Shabanova received many accolades for her professional work, including the Russian Hero of Labor medal in 1928 and membership of the American Academy of Social Sciences in Philadelphia in 1929.

[3] She conceived and organised the first All-Russian Women's Congress on December 10 to 16 1908 which went ahead under the watchful eye of police censors.

Anna Shabanova at the Brooklyn Museum Dinner Party Database of Notable Women.

Margaret R. Higonnet, ed., Lines of Fire: Women Writers of World War I, (New York: Plume, 1999).