Background
KALMYKOVA, Aleksandra was born on December 26, 1849 in Yekaterinoslav.
KALMYKOVA, Aleksandra was born on December 26, 1849 in Yekaterinoslav.
Graduate high school.
In 1880’s helped found and ran Sunday schools in Khar’kov and Saint St. Petersburg. Worked for Narodnaya Volya (People's Will) movement. Connected with Liberation of Labor group and later with Saint St. Petersburg League for Liberation of the Working Class.
Member, edbd, Legal Marxistjournals“Novoycslovo”and“Nachaio”. 1890-1902 in charge of popular lit book depot which served as a secret address for Social-Dcmocrats. Helped finance publ of Lenin’s “Iskra” and “Zarya”.
1902 deported from Russia. Gave Bolsheviks financial aid. After 1917 October Revol worked for Leningrad Department of Education and Ushinskiy Teachers’ Training Institute in Leningrad.
Wrote about children's literature