Olga Volkenstein

Volkenstein was a left wing committee member of the Union for Women's Equality,^[4] which demanded equal political and voting rights for women. She hoped to mobilize female factory workers to the cause,^[5] was critical of the "well-to-do ladies" of the Union,^[6] and organised lecture tours to give talks on the early history of the women's movement.^[7]

She served as a delegate to the International Woman Suffrage Alliance (IWSA) Congress in Copenhagen in 1906,^[6] and organised the first All-Russian Women's Congress. The Union was succeeded by the League for Women's Equality. Volkenstein also became a member of the Social Revolutionary Party.^[8]

Volkenstein died in Leningrad, Soviet Union (USSR) in March 1942 and was buried at Piskarevsky Memorial Cemetery.^{[citation needed]}