16 September 1919(1919-09-16) (aged 33–34) Sevastopol, Taurida, South Russia
Cause of death
Execution by firing squad
Nationality
Ukrainian
Spouse
Witold Brzostek
Nickname
Marusya (Ukrainian: Маруся)
Military service
Allegiance
France (1914-1917) Ukrainian People's Republic of Soviets (1917-1918) Makhnovshchina (1919)
Branch/service
French Foreign Legion (1914–1917)
Black Guards (1917–1919)
Years of service
1914-1919
Rank
Atamansha
Commands
Oleksandrivsk Black Guards (1917–1918)
Free Combat Druzhina [uk] (1918–1919)
Battles/wars
World War I
Macedonian front
Ukrainian War of Independence
Oleksandrivsk uprising
Maria Hryhorivna Nikiforova (Ukrainian: Марія Григорівна Нікіфорова; 1885–1919) was a Ukrainian anarchist partisan leader that led the Black Guards during the Ukrainian War of Independence, becoming widely renowned as an atamansha. A self-described terrorist from the age of 16, she was imprisoned for her activities in Russia before managing to escape to western Europe. With the outbreak of World War I, she took up the defencist line and joined the French Foreign Legion on the Macedonian front before returning to Ukraine with the outbreak of the 1917 Revolution.
In her home city of Oleksandrivsk (today Zaporizhzhia), she established an anarchist combat detachment and subsequently attacked the forces of the Russian Provisional Government and the Ukrainian People's Republic. After the October Revolution escalated into a civil war, she joined the side of the Ukrainian Soviet Republic, leading her druzhina in capturing Taurida and Yelysavethrad (today Kropyvnytskyi) from the Ukrainian People's Army.
When Ukraine was invaded by the Central Powers, she was forced to flee to Russia, where she was prosecuted for insubordination by the nascent Bolshevik government. When she returned to Ukraine, she briefly participated in the civilian activities of the Makhnovshchina before returning to terrorism. She aimed to assassinate the leaders of the White movement (Anton Denikin and Alexander Kolchak) but was caught and executed.
Maria Hryhorivna Nikiforova (Ukrainian: Марія Григорівна Нікіфорова; 1885–1919) was a Ukrainian anarchist partisan leader that led the Black Guards during...
Aleksandra Nikiforova (born Alexandra Olegovna Nikiforova 16 February 1993) is a Russian actress, best known for her role in a Turkish TV series Kalbimin...
anarchists. They were created in the Summer of 1917 in Ukraine by MariaNikiforova, and expanded in January 1918 to Moscow, under the control of anarchists...
communes. On 10 September [O.S. 27 August], the Ukrainian anarchist MariaNikiforova responded to the attempted coup by leading a 200-strong detachment...
researcher Viktor Savchenko, an underground anarchist group led by MariaNikiforova ("Marusya") in the summer of 1919 began to develop plans to assassinate...
diplomat and politician. Eva Neymann (born 1974), Ukrainian film director MariaNikiforova (1885–1919), revolutionary insurgent and Anarchist partisan leader...
Marta 2004 — Daddy as Arisha 2006 — Nine Lives of Nestor Makhno as MariaNikiforova 2006 — Alive as Syomina 2006 — Piranha as Nina 2006 — The Spot as Anya...
Russian writer and translator Letters from Marusia, 1976 Mexican film MariaNikiforova, widely known as Marusya (1885–1919), Ukrainian anarchist partisan...
Minh Kim Ku Juan Peron Lembitu Louis Joseph Papineau Nestor Makhno MariaNikiforova Osceola Red Cloud Robin Hood Juba Rummu Jüri Osman Batur Mohammed Abdullah...
Russian ice hockey forward Galin Nikiforov (born 1968), Bulgarian writer MariaNikiforova (1885–1919), Ukrainian partisan leader Nikolay Nikiforov (born 1982)...
with resistance, both from the armed anarchist detachments led by MariaNikiforova and from a series of strike actions by sympathetic industrial workers...
Revolutionary Army of Ukraine, and he fought alongside Nestor Makhno and MariaNikiforova until the defeat of the anarchists at the hands of the Red Army in...
of the Soviet Union Kirill Moskalenko, marshal of the Soviet Union MariaNikiforova, only female commander of an anarchist cavalry detachment, the "Free...
Yoweri Museveni Alice Auma (Alice Lakwena) Joseph Kony Nestor Makhno MariaNikiforova Glyndŵr Rising Owain Glyndŵr in Wales American Revolution Banastre...
Lenin never fully recovered his health. Some women, like Anarchist MariaNikiforova and Left Socialist-Revolutionary Irina Kakhovskaya, respectively conducted...
Meanwhile, other agents of the first Kontrrazvedka had signed up to MariaNikiforova's terrorist detachment, which organised assassination attempts against...
Klym Polishchuk and the historical novel Marusya by Vasyl Shklyar. MariaNikiforova Danylo Terpylo Chuzha, Oksana (14 December 2012). "Легенда про поліську...
Guards Bryansk Factory Red Guards Orlyk Serdiuk Regiment Anarchists of MariaNikiforova and Nestor Makhno Oleksandrivsk Red Guards Kiev city garrison soldiers...
established as the city's centre of power, with Nestor Makhno and MariaNikiforova being elected to prominent positions. Savelii's Black Guards occupied...
Global Information
France (1914-1917)
Ukrainian People's Republic of Soviets (1917-1918)
Makhnovshchina (1919)
