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Yekaterina Pavlovna Peshkova, née Volzhina (Russian: Екатери́на Па́вловна Пешко́ва, née Во́лжина; 26 July 1876 – 26 March 1965) was a Soviet human rights activist and humanitarian, first wife of Maxim Gorky.
Yekaterina Pavlovna Peshkova was a Soviet human rights activist and humanitarian, first wife of Maxim Gorky. Before the October Revolution she took an active part in the work of the Committee for Assistance to Russian Political Prisoners under the leadership of Vera Figner.
- Mordechai Rubin
- June 15th, 1927, Leningrad: The Rebbe is Arrested. After midnight on Tuesday night, June 14th, 1927, the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, of righteous memory, was arrested by officers of the Leningrad precinct of the Soviet Secret Police (the OGPU).
- October 1926, Ukraine: The Korosten Assembly. Among the events that led to the Rebbe’s arrest was a rabbinic assembly held in October 1926, in Korosten, Ukraine, to lobby governmental authorities to recognize Jewish religious institutions.
- A Raid in London, an Assassination in Warsaw: Terror in Russia. On the top left, British police stand guard after raiding the offices of the All-Russian Co-operative Society (ARCOS) in London on the 12th of May 1927, just one month before the Rebbe would be arrested.
- Shpalerka Prison, Leningrad: Brutal Incarceration. Spalerno Prison. This striking image shows the tiered steel staircases in the House of Preliminary Detention, at 25 Shpalernaya Street, also known as the Spalerno or Shpalerka prison in Leningrad, where the Rebbe was taken after his arrest on the night of the 14th of June.
One of the most consequential steps the Moscow committee took was to enlist the aid of Madame Yekaterina Peshkova, head of the Political Red Cross in Russia and the first wife of Russian literary icon Maxim Gorky.
- Dovid Margolin
Oct 22, 2023 · Thanks to his journalistic luck, he was quickly promoted to the position of reporter after he miraculously interviewed Yekaterina Peshkova, the wife of the Russian writer Maxim Gorky, when she arrived in Berlin. However, at the age of 22, he changed his life again, becoming a Middle Eastern correspondent for the Frankfurter Zeitung.
Gorky also helped other political prisoners (not without the influence of his wife, Yekaterina Peshkova). For example, because of Gorky's interference Mikhail Bakhtin 's initial verdict (5 years of Solovki) was changed to 6 years of exile.
PESHKOVA, Yekaterina was born on July 14, 1876 in village Semiren’ki, Khar'kov Province. Career. 1895 proof-reader, “Samarskaya gazeta”. Active in soc and revol movement. 1904-1905 in Crimea; 1907 — 14 lived abroad. During World War 1 worked for Social for Aid to War Victims. After 1917 October Revol worked for Polit Red Cross.
