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Catherine Breshkovsky (real name ''Yekaterina Konstatinovna Breshko-Breshkovskaya'') (1844–1934) was a Russian revolutionary, better known as '''Babushka''' (Grandmother). She left her home at the age of 26 to join followers of anarchist Mikhail Bakunin in Kiev . As Narodnik revolutionary, she was imprisoned 1874 at Katorga and exiled to Siberia in 1878 . After her release in 1896 , she formed a Socialist-Revolutionary group and helped to organize the Socialist-Revolutionary Party in 1901 . She escaped to Switzerland and the United States in 1900 . After returning to Russia in 1905 , she was captured and exiled to Siberia again. After 1917 , revolution political prisoners were released and Breshkovsky was given a seat in Aleksandr Kerensky 's government. When the Bolshevik s Came To Power , Breshkovsky was again forced to flee. She died in Czechoslovakia in 1934 . |