Maria Vasilyevna Kalyuzhnaya (Russian: Мария Васильевна Калюжная;[a] 1864 – 7 November 1889) was a Ukrainian Narodnik revolutionary.
She committed suicide by poisoning in the Kara katorga, in protest against the abuse of imprisoned women by the prison authorities.
Maria Vasilyevna Kalyuzhnaya was born in 1864, in Lebedyn, a city in the Kharkov Governorate of the Russian Empire.
[1][2] She joined the Narodniks and was arrested in Odesa in 1882, on charges of printing subversive literature for Narodnaya Volya.
[3] In November 1889, Kalyuzhnaya committed suicide by poisoning together with Sigida, Kovalevska and Smyrnytska, in protest against the abuse of women by the prison authorities.