Vera Slutskaya

Vera Klimentievna Slutskaya (17 September 1874 – 12 November 1917) was a Russian revolutionary and Bolshevik member of the Duma.

[2] Born Bertha Bronislavovna in Mir, in Minsk Governorate, in a middle-class Jewish family, and educated as a dentist.

During the First Russian Revolution of 1905-1907, was a member of the combat organization of the RSDLP, took part in the revolutionary struggle in Minsk and St. Petersburg.

In 1909 Vera Slutskaya left for emigration, lived in Germany and Switzerland, in 1912 she returned to her homeland, where since 1913 she was engaged in party work in the capital St. Petersburg.

During the suppression of the insurgency of her Red Guards detachment, she was killed when delivering medicines near Tsarskoe Selo, now the city of Pushkin (within St. Petersburg).

Russian postcard with a portrait of Slutskaya, December 1917
Grave of Vera Slutskaya at the St. Petersburg at the Preobrazhenskoye Jewish cemetery