Anna
Shabanova, the daughter
of a wealthy landowner, was born in Russia
in 1848. When she was a young woman she joined a radical political
group and in 1865 was arrested and imprisoned for six months.
Shabanova
wanted to become a doctor and unable to train in Russia moved to Helsinki.
She returned in 1873 when a new women's medical course started in
St. Petersburg. In 1878 she became one of the first women in Russia
to qualify as a doctor.
Shabanova
was one of the founders of the Russian Women's Mutual Philanthropic
Society and during the 1905 Revolution campaigned for women's suffrage.
During
the First World War Shabanova was a strong
supporter of the war effort and supported the policies of the Provisional
Government. Anna Shabanova died in 1932.
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