Maria Alexandrovna Kolenkina, Russian socialist revolutionary from a merchant family in Temzhuk, a small town on the Sea of Azov. While studying to midwife in Kiev in the early 1870s she became part of the populist movement in Russia. She was one of those populists that went "to the people" in 1874 to propagandize and later belonged to Bakunist socialists known as the Southern Rebels (Iuzhnye Buntari) in Kiev and after that was associated with the Land and Liberty

Land and Liberty (Russia)

Land and Liberty was a Russian clandestine revolutionary organization of Narodniki in the 1870s...

 movement in Saint Petersburg.

Together with Vera Zasulich

Vera Zasulich

Vera Ivanovna Zasulich was a Russian Marxist writer and revolutionary.-Radical beginnings:Zasulich was born in Mikhaylovka, Russia, one of four daughters of an impoverished minor noble. When she was 3, her father died and her mother sent her to live with her wealthier relatives, the Mikulich...

 she planned what was in posterity seen as the first modern terrorist deed, to assassinate two Russian government officials on January 24, 1878. However, her attempt to assassinate Vladislav Zhelekhovskii, the prosecutor in the Trial of the 193 failed while Zasulich succeeded in injuring the Governor of St Petersburg Fyodor Trepov

Fyodor Trepov

Fedor Fedorovich Trepov Senior was a Russian government official.Feodor Trepov began his military career in 1831 by participating in the suppression of the November Uprising in Poland in 1830–1831. He then commanded a cavalry regiment of gendarmes in Kiev...

. Kolenkina was after a gun fight with the Russian gendarmes arrested on October 11, 1878 and sentenced to 10 years of hard labor and internal exile to Siberia.