Kaplan, Fanya (1883–1918)

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Kaplan, Fanya (1883–1918)

Russian revolutionary. Name variations: Fanny Kaplan. Born 1883 into a Jewish peasant family; shot and killed, Sept 3, 1918.

Joined the Socialist Revolutionaries; having participated in attempted assassination of a tsarist official in Kiev (1906), was arrested and sentenced to life at hard labor in Siberia; during February Revolution, was released (1917); furious when Lenin closed down the Constituent Assembly, shot and wounded him (left shoulder and left lung) at close range (Aug 30, 1918); was shot by Pavel Malkov on orders of Yakov Sverdlov; her act contributed to the launching of the Red Terror.