Fanni Kaplan

Fanya Yefimovna Kaplan , was a Russian revolutionary who tried to assassinate Vladimir Lenin.

Kaplan was born into a Jewish family, as one of seven children. She became a political revolutionary at an early age and joined a socialist group, the Socialist Revolutionaries. In 1906, when she wasyears old, Kaplan was arrested in Kiev over her involvement in a terrorist bomb plot, and committed for life to the katorga . She served in the Maltsev and Akatuy prisons of Nerchinsk katorga, Siberia, where she lost her sight . She was kept in the Maltzevskaya prison, where she was severely caned on her bare body as disciplinary corporal punishment. Fully undressed corporal punishment was not usual for political prisoners at that time. She was released on March 3, 1917, after the February Revolution overthrew the imperial government. As a result of her imprisonment, Kaplan suffered from continuous headaches and periods of blindness.

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