the Semenovsky Regiment, where the execution was set to take place. They were all dressed in black prison uniforms, and on their chests hung a placard with the inscription: "Regicide". Perovskaya, along with Mikhailov and Kibalchich, was placed on a cart that was drawn through the city by a pair of horses. The correspondent of the London Times estimated that the execution was attended by a hundred thousand spectators. When priests ascended the gallows to give the last rites, the convicts almost simultaneously approached them and kissed the crucifix. Once the priests withdrew, Zhelyabov and Mikhailov approached Perovskaya and they kissed each other good-bye. Perovskaya had turned away from Rysakov. Four other Pervomartovtsy, including Zhelyabov, were hanged with her. Legacy Three decades after her death, Perovskaya would become the inspiration for the Japanese feminist Kanno Sugako, who was involved in a 1910 plan to assassinate the Emperor Meiji. Kanno was also executed by hanging. In 2018 the New York Times published a belated obituary for Perovskaya. In literature Henry Parkes was inspired by her to write the poem, The Beauteous Terrorist. Reproduced in full in The Beauteous Terrorist and Other Poems by Sydney Electronic Text and Image Service. Moss, Walter G., Alexander II and His Times: A Narrative History of Russia in the Age of Alexander II, Tolstoy, and Dostoevsky. London: Anthem Press, 2002. Several chapters on Perovskaya. (available online) Croft, Lee B. Nikolai Ivanovich Kibalchich: Terrorist Rocket Pioneer.'' IIHS. 2006. . Content on Perovskaya, including her father, mother, and her unmarked burial. Jan Guillou uses Perovskaya in his book ”Men inte om det gälle din dotter” (”But not if it concerns your daughter”) as an example of how changes in political situation can alter the perception of a person between being a terrorist and a freedom fighter. See also 2422 Perovskaya Women in the Russian Revolution References Bibliography External links 1853 births 1881 deaths Executed people from Saint Petersburg Narodnaya Volya Russian Empire prisoners and detainees Internal exiles from the Russian Empire Female revolutionaries Executed revolutionaries Executed people from the Russian Empire Narodniks Executed women from the Russian Empire People executed by the Russian Empire by hanging 19th-century executions by the Russian Empire Revolutionaries from the Russian Empire Prisoners of the Peter and Paul Fortress