Nadezhda Sigida
Nadezhda Sigida  |
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| Born |
Nadezhda Malaxiano 1862 Taganrog, Russian Empire |
| Died | November 8, 1889 Ust-Kara, Russian Empire |
| Occupation | teacher, revolutionary |
| Known for | Kara katorga tragedy |
| Political party | Narodnaya Volya |
| Spouse(s) | Akim Sigida |
Nadezhda Konstantinovna Sigida (Russian: Наде́жда Константи́новна Сиги́да), née Malaxiano (Russian: Малаксиано) (1862–1889), was a Russian revolutionary, heroine of the Kara katorga tragedy of 1889.
Nadezhda Malaxiano was born into a Greek family in the city of Taganrog in 1862. She graduated from the Taganrog Mariinskaya Girls Gymnasium, and gave lessons in a church school. The family lived in a house on Gogolevski Street 8, next to Anton Chekhov's family house. Nadezhda Malaxiano became involved with a Narodnaya Volya group, being one of its activists in Taganrog's underground printshop in 1885–1886 on Glushko Street 60. She made a sham marriage with Akim Sigida (1868-1888) for conspiracy work at the printshop.
On 23 January 1886 following the disclosure of Narodnaya Volya's printers in Taganrog, she was arrested along with other organization members. The special hearing for her case was held in the Senate December 8–9, 1887 and was referred to as The Don Process (Донской процесс). At court, Nadezhda Sigida used the tactics of Narodnaya Volya, refusing to testify and only acknowledging her membership to the revolutionary organization. She was sentenced to death penalty. Sigida appealed for pardon following the request of Malaxiano family, and the death penalty was replaced by 8 years of katorga on Kara River in Transbaikalia.
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