Margherita Colonna
She was born in Palestrina about 1255. Her father, Oddone Colonna, died when she was about two years old. Her mother, who was also named Margherita and who was the sister of Matteo Rosso Orsini and a pious woman, died when Margherita was probably a little over ten years old. Margherita was left in the care of her older brothers.
Anastasia Bitsenko
Anastasia Bitsenko was born on 10 November 1875 in a small village in the Yekaterinoslav Governorate, Russian Empire. After she married she became engaged in revolutionary activities against the Tsarist monarchy early on. In 1902 she joined the Party of Socialists-Revolutionaries and participated in various assignments. In 1905 she assassinated the Russian Minister of War Viktor Sakharov, "the butcher of Saratov". Bitsenko was captured, trialed and initially sentenced to death; but her punishment was later reduced to exilement to the Nerchinsk penal colony. There she met five other women with a similar history, among them fellow revolutionary Maria Spiridonova. The infamous feats of these women received some significant fame in the populace and they became collectively known as the "Shesterka" ("The Six").