fuckyeahmarxismleninism:

Olga Vever: born Mid-1890 - died November 1, 1917 (old style)
Worker-seamstress, participant of the October armed uprising in Moscow in 1917. 

Of Latvian nationality. She came to Moscow during the First World War, was a seamstress in a factory, before that she participated in the performances of the Latvian working troupe. 

In October 1917, she joined the Red Guard as a nurse of the Latvian squad. Took part in the battles for the Alexevskoe Military School in Lefortoto, the central telephone station (Milutinsky Lane, now house № 5).

She died on Nikolskaya Street at the attack on the Kremlin, near which she was buried.

#soviet_woman #IWWD

Via Aurora Women’s Club