Maria Stefania Bohuszewiczówna (1865–1887) was a Polish revolutionary and a leader of the First Proletariat party.

Bohuszewiczówna was born on January 4, 1865 in the village of Ceperce (near Slutsk

Slutsk

Slutsk is a town in Belarus, located on the Sluch River south of Minsk. As of 2010 its population is of 61,400).-Geography:The town is situated in the south-west of its Voblast, not too far from from the city of Soligorsk.-History:...

 in what is now Belarus

Belarus

Belarus , officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered clockwise by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest, Grodno , Gomel ,...

). She moved to Warsaw in 1874. In 1882 and 1883 she attended courses at the Flying University

Flying University

Flying University was the name of an underground educational enterprise that operated from 1885 to 1905 in Warsaw, the historic Polish capital, then under the control of the Russian Empire, and that was revived between 1977 and 1981 in the People's Republic of Poland...

. From 1882 she was active in the Political Red Cross

Political Red Cross

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. After a wave of arrests in July 1884, Bohuszewiczówna was elected to the central committee of the First Proletariat party.

On March 2, 1885, Bohuszewiczówna organized a demonstration for the unemployed at Castle Square. For this activity she was arrested on September 29, 1885, and imprisoned in the Warsaw Citadel

Warsaw Citadel

Cytadela is a 19th-century fortress in Warsaw, Poland. It was built by order of Tsar Nicholas I after the suppression of the 1830 November Uprising in order to bolster imperial Russian control of the city. It served as a prison into the late 1930s.- History :The Citadel was built by personal...

, where she was placed in a cell with Julia Razumiejczyk and Rozalia Felsenhardt. On May 12, 1887, she was sentenced to internal exile

Exile

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 in Siberia

Siberia

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. She died in 1887 in Krasnoyarsk

Krasnoyarsk

Krasnoyarsk is a city and the administrative center of Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, located on the Yenisei River. It is the third largest city in Siberia, with the population of 973,891. Krasnoyarsk is an important junction of the Trans-Siberian Railway and one of Russia's largest producers of...

while on the way to her assigned location.