Ekaterina Shchepkina

Ekaterina Shchepkina (1854–1938) was a Russian and later Soviet feminist, historian and journalist.

Ekaterina Nikolaevna Shchepkina was born in 1854 and attended the Courses Guerrier in Moscow and the Bestuzhev Courses in St Petersburg as a protégé of the director, the historian Konstantin Bestuzhev-Ryumin.

Shchepkina was one of the founders of the All-Russian Union for Women's Equality in February 1905 and joined the All-Russian League for Women's Equality after the Union dissolved at the end of the Russian Revolution in 1906.

Shchepkina gave a talk at the 1908 All-Russian Women's Congress (Pervyi Vserossiisskii Zhenskii S’ezd) and was one of the League's ten candidates for the Russian Constituent Assembly after the February Revolution of 1917.

She published a history of the women's movement during the French Revolution in 1921 with an introduction by Alexandra Kollontai.