Élisabeth Dmitrieff
Elisabeth Dmitrieff was born in Russia in 1851. She was born into a noble family but was an illegitimate child. Nevertheless, she received an education and from the end of the 1860s she became interested in Marxist thought and the ideas of Nikolai Chernyshevsky. After getting married, she went to Geneva to finish her studies.
Geneva was at that time a refusal for political refugees. There she met Bakounine and Anna Jaclard. She became involved in the Russian section of the International Workers' Association.
When the Paris Commune happened, she was sent by Marx with whom she had become friends to London. She participates in the movement by creating the "Union of Women for the Defense of Paris and the Care of the Wounded".
During the semaine sanglante (bloody week), Elisabeth took part in the street fighting. She managed to escape from the Versaillais and maybe have returned to Geneva. The historians found her in Russia in October. It is known that the council of war in France had condemned her to deportation for having participated in the Commune.
In Russia, she no longer recognizes the socialist groups she used to frequent in Saint Petersburg. The question of women's rights are no longer on the agenda.
She remarried after her husband's death to the intendant of whom she had two daughters. She was exiled with him when he was denounced for fraud. She left him between 1900 and 1902 and moved to Moscow.
We don't know what happened to her afterwards.
