Anastasia Bitsenko

Anastasia Bitsenko
Born
Anastasia Alekseevna Kameristaya

10 November 1875
Died16 June 1938 (aged 62)
OccupationRevolutionary
Political partySocial Revolutionary Party
Left Socialist Revolutionary Party
Party of Revolutionary Communism
Russian Communist Party

Anastasia Alekseevna Bitsenko, née Kameristaya (Russian: Анастасия Алексеевна Биценко, née Камeристая; 10 November 1875 – 16 June 1938) was a Narodnik-inspired, later Communist, Russian revolutionary. As a member of a socialist revolutionary (SR) flying combat detachment, she came to fame for assassinating the former Russian Minister of War Viktor Sakharov in 1905. After being held in detention for over 11 years, she was freed during the February Revolution and joined the Left Socialist-Revolutionaries. For her achievements, the party designated her as their representative within the Soviet delegation for the German-Russian peace negotiations in World War I, which resulted in the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. She returned to Russia and held various Soviet party positions, before being executed during the Stalinist purges.