Dora Brilliant

Dora Vulfovna Brilliant was a Ukrainian socialist revolutionary. She manufactured bombs for the SR Combat Organisation, which used them to carry out assassinations against the interior minister Vyacheslav von Plehve and Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich. She struggled to reconcile her view of the necessity of political assassinations with her own discomfort with violence, believing that self-sacrifice was the only way to justify it. She became depressed while working on the assassinations, and after she was arrested and imprisoned for her part in them, she died in prison.²