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Fanya Kaplan

Tried to Assassinate Vladimir Lenin

Born: 10 February , Volhynian Governorate, Russian Empire (Present-day Northern Ukraine)

Died: 3 September , Moscow, Bolshevik-Controlled Russia (Present-day Moscow, Russia)

Original Name: Feiga Chaimovna Roytblat

Fanya was one of six or seven children (sources differ) born into a peasant family.

All of the children were educated at home. Fanya’s parents eventually emigrated to the United States.

In, Fanya was involved in an attempt to kill a Tsarist officer in Kiev after joining the radical Socialist Revolutionary Party.

She was caught and sentenced to a life of hard labor in Siberia, becoming almost completely blind in the process.

After eleven years of backbreaking labor in the frozen north, Fanya was released after the February Revolution alongside other socialist prisoners.

Soon after, the Bolsheviks decided to shut down the Constituent Assembly, which had been gathered to form a constitution for the new Russian