Nadezhda Andreyevna "Nadya" Tolokonnikova ( rus, Надежда Андреевна "Надя" Толоконникова, p=nɐˈdʲeʐdə ɐnˈdrʲejɪvnə ˈnadʲə təlɐˈkonʲːɪkəvə; born November 7, 1989) is a Russian musician, conceptual artist, and political

activist Activism consists of efforts to promote, impede, direct or intervene in social, political, economic or environmental reform with the desire to make changes in society toward a perceived common good. Forms of activism range from mandate build ...

. She is a founding member of the feminist group

Pussy Riot Pussy Riot is a Feminism in Russia, Russian feminist protest and performance art group based in Moscow that became popular for its provocative punk rock music which later turned into a more accessible style. Founded in the fall of 2011 by the th ...

, and has a history of political activism with the street art group Voina. On August 17, 2012, she was arrested for "

hooliganism Hooliganism is disruptive or unlawful behavior such as rioting, bullying and vandalism, often in connection with crowds at sporting events. A hooligan is a person that engages in illicit reckless behaviors and is a public nuisance. Etymology ...

motivated by religious hatred" after a performance in the

Cathedral of Christ the Saviour The Cathedral of Christ the Saviour (, ) is a Russian Orthodox Church, Russian Orthodox cathedral in Moscow, Russia, on the northern bank of the Moskva River, a few hundred metres southwest of the Kremlin. With an overall height of , it is the ...

Moscow Moscow is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Russia by population, largest city of Russia, standing on the Moskva (river), Moskva River in Central Russia. It has a population estimated at over 13 million residents with ...

and was ultimately sentenced to two years' imprisonment. On December 23, 2013, she was released early alongside fellow Pussy Riot member

Maria Alyokhina Maria "Masha" Vladimirovna Alyokhina (; born 6 June 1988) is a Russian political activist. She is a member of the Opposition to Vladimir Putin in Russia, anti-Putinist punk rock group Pussy Riot. Early life and education Maria Vladimirovna Al ...

under a newly passed

amnesty Amnesty () is defined as "A pardon extended by the government to a group or class of people, usually for a political offense; the act of a sovereign power officially forgiving certain classes of people who are subject to trial but have not yet be ...

bill dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the

Russian constitution The Constitution of the Russian Federation () was adopted by national referendum on 12 December 1993 and enacted on 25 December 1993. The latest significant reform occurred in 2020, marked by extensive amendments that altered various sections ...

. While jailed, Tolokonnikova was recognized as a

political prisoner A political prisoner is someone imprisoned for their political activity. The political offense is not always the official reason for the prisoner's detention. There is no internationally recognized legal definition of the concept, although ...

by the Russian

human rights Human rights are universally recognized Morality, moral principles or Social norm, norms that establish standards of human behavior and are often protected by both Municipal law, national and international laws. These rights are considered ...

group Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners.

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named her a

prisoner of conscience A prisoner of conscience (POC) is anyone imprisoned because of their race, sexual orientation, religion, or political views. The term also refers to those who have been imprisoned or persecuted for the nonviolent expression of their conscienti ...

due to "the severity of the response of the Russian authorities". On December 30, 2021, Russia's

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added Tolokonnikova to its list of "foreign agents". Currently she lives outside Russia, but does not disclose where for safety reasons.

Early life and education

Tolokonnikova was born on November 7, 1989, in the industrial city of

Norilsk Norilsk ( rus, Нори́льск, p=nɐˈrʲilʲsk) is a closed city in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, located south of the western Taymyr Peninsula, around 90 km east of the Yenisei, Yenisey River and 1,500 km north of Krasnoyarsk. Norilsk is 300 ...

, Russia, to parents Andrey Stepanovich Tolokonnikov and Yekaterina Voronina. Her parents

divorced Divorce (also known as dissolution of marriage) is the process of terminating a marriage or marital union. Divorce usually entails the canceling or reorganising of the legal duties and responsibilities of marriage, thus dissolving the ...

when she was five years old. In her late school years, she was active in amateur modern literature and art projects, organized by the '' Novoye Literaturnoye Obozreniye''. In 2007, at age 17, Tolokonnikova moved to

, and enrolled in the

philosophy Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...

department of the

Moscow State University Moscow State University (MSU), officially M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University,. is a public university, public research university in Moscow, Russia. The university includes 15 research institutes, 43 faculties, more than 300 departments, a ...

Career

Tolokonnikova and

Pyotr Verzilov Pyotr Yurievich Verzilov ( rus, Пётр Ю́рьевич Верзилов, p=ˈpʲɵtr vʲɪrˈzʲiləf; born 25 October 1987) is a Russian-Canadian artist and activist who came to prominence as the unofficial spokesperson of the band Pussy Rio ...

joined the Voina art collective in 2007 and participated in several of their provocative art performances. In February 2008, they were involved in the " Fuck for the heir Puppy Bear!" performance in which couples were filmed engaging in sexual acts in the Timiryazev State Biology Museum in Moscow. The performance was said to be intended as a kind of

satire Satire is a genre of the visual, literary, and performing arts, usually in the form of fiction and less frequently non-fiction, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, often with the intent of exposin ...

of then President

Dmitry Medvedev Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev (born 14 September 1965) is a Russian politician and lawyer who has served as Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of Russia since 2020. Medvedev was also President of Russia between 2008 and 2012 and Prime Mini ...

's call for increased reproduction. She was in the late stages of

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at the time. On March 3, 2008, she was detained by police at a dissenters march in Moscow. Tolokonnikova was among the Voina members who disrupted a trial for the director of the Andrei Sakharov Center in 2009. But later, according to the "

Rossiyskaya Gazeta ' () is a Russian newspaper published by the Government of Russia. History ''Rossiyskaya Gazeta'' was founded in 1990 by the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR, Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR during the ''glasnost'' reforms in Soviet Union, shortl ...

", together with Pyotr Verzilov were expelled from Voina "for provocation and surrender of activists of the group to the police". She also took part in a series of actions ''Operation Kiss Garbage'', (, roughly translated as "Kiss a pig") from January through March 2011. This project comprised female members' kissing policewomen in Moscow metro stations and on the streets.

Arrest and indictment

Following the "Punk Prayer" incident on February 21, 2012, a criminal case was opened on February 26 against the band members who had participated. On March 3, Tolokonnikova and Pussy Riot co-member

were identified by the Russian authorities. They were arrested on March 4 after being accused of

. They first denied being members of the group and started a

hunger strike A hunger strike is a method of non-violent resistance where participants fasting, fast as an act of political protest, usually with the objective of achieving a specific goal, such as a policy change. Hunger strikers that do not take fluids are ...

in protest against being held in jail away from their young children. They were held without bail and were formally charged on June 4 with the indictment running to 2,800 pages. While there was speculation that Canadian authorities might attempt to intervene because Tolokonnikova is a Canadian permanent resident, such intervention did not occur.

Court case and imprisonment

The trial of the Pussy Riot members started on July 30, 2012, and ended in August 2012 with a verdict. On August 17, 2012, Tolokonnikova, together with co-members

and

Yekaterina Samutsevich Yekaterina Stanislavovna Samutsevich (; born 9 August 1982) is a Russian political activist. She was a member of the anti-Putinist punk rock group Pussy Riot. Criminal history On 17 August 2012, she was convicted of hooliganism motivated by re ...

, were convicted of

motivated by religious hatred and sentenced to two years of imprisonment. Tolokonnikova was serving her two-year sentence in the ''IK-14'' women's

penal colony A penal colony or exile colony is a settlement used to exile prisoners and separate them from the general population by placing them in a remote location, often an island or distant colonial territory. Although the term can be used to refer ...

near the settlement of Partsa (),

Republic A republic, based on the Latin phrase ''res publica'' ('public affair' or 'people's affair'), is a State (polity), state in which Power (social and political), political power rests with the public (people), typically through their Representat ...

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. On September 23, 2013, she went on hunger strike over prison conditions as well as alleged threats against her life made by prison staff. Her letter about the conditions of the women in the penal colony asserted that the women have no rights, that the prisoners must work 16–17 hours and sleep 3–4 hours a day, and that they have a day off every 8th week. Further, she claimed that when prisoners complain they are punished, and that when they complain about the treatment of other prisoners they are punished even more severely. Claiming that collective punishment is frequent, she also stated that the prisoners are sometimes beaten with a particular focus on hitting the kidneys. Another asserted punishment consists of keeping a prisoner outdoors in the cold without sufficient clothing. Most of what she reported has been affirmed by other sources. While imprisoned, she exchanged letters with filmmaker, philosopher, and cultural critic

Slavoj Žižek Slavoj Žižek ( ; ; born 21 March 1949) is a Slovenian Marxist philosopher, cultural theorist and public intellectual. He is the international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at the University of London, Global Distin ...

discussing democracy and her activism. Their correspondence was arranged by the French philosopher Michel Eltchaninoff, and their 11 letters were compiled into a short book, ''Comradely Greetings: The Prison Letters of Nadya and Slavoj'', published by

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in 2014. In late September 2013, Tolokonnikova was hospitalised after going without food for a week. She was treated in the prison's medical ward; authorities did not release more specific details. On October 21, 2013, she was transferred to another prison; her whereabouts remained unknown for several weeks. On November 5, 2013, it was reported that Tolokonnikova had been transferred to IK-50, a prison located near Nizhny Ingash, approximately 300 kilometres from

Krasnoyarsk Krasnoyarsk is the largest types of inhabited localities in Russia, city and administrative center of Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. It is situated along the Yenisey, Yenisey River, and is the second-largest city in Siberia after Novosibirsk, with a p ...

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. On November 15, she was again able to communicate with her husband through a video call from the prison hospital.

Release

On the afternoon of December 23, 2013, Tolokonnikova was released from a prison hospital in

, where she was being treated for an unspecified illness. According to Yelena Pimonenko, senior prosecutor assistant of the

Krasnoyarsk Krai Krasnoyarsk Krai (, ) is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject (a krai) of Russia located in Siberia. Its administrative center is the types of inhabited localities in Russia, city of Krasnoyarsk, the second-largest city in Siberia after ...

, Tolokonnikova was released because the article "hooliganism" of the Russian Criminal Code fell under the newly introduced

bill. Putin's amnesty was seen by the freed prisoners and numerous critics as a propaganda stunt as Russia prepared to host the

2014 Winter Olympics The 2014 Winter Olympics, officially called the XXII Olympic Winter Games () and commonly known as Sochi 2014 (), were an international winter multi-sport event that was held from 7 to 23 February 2014 in Sochi, Russia. Opening ro ...

in February. About her release, Tolokonnikova said: "Releasing people just a few months before their term expires is a cosmetic measure ... that includes the case of Khodorkovsky, who didn't have much time left on his prison term. This is ridiculous. While Putin refuses to release those people who really needed it. It is a disgusting and cynical act", and urged countries to boycott the 2014 Winter Olympics. She and Alyokhina said they would form a human rights movement for prison reforms. On March 6, 2014, Tolokonnikova and Alyokhina were assaulted and injured at a fast food outlet by local youths in

Nizhny Novgorod Nizhny Novgorod ( ; rus, links=no, Нижний Новгород, a=Ru-Nizhny Novgorod.ogg, p=ˈnʲiʐnʲɪj ˈnovɡərət, t=Lower Newtown; colloquially shortened to Nizhny) is a city and the administrative centre of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast an ...

. After their release, Tolokonnikova and Alyokhina founded a penal and judicial-themed media outlet MediaZona.

OnlyFans

In 2021, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova announced that she had started an account on OnlyFans, a paid membership site that was known for allowing women to create and sell pornography with their own image. Tolokonnikova wrote on Twitter, "Crazy Empress." According to her OnlyFans account, a subscription to view racy images of the Pussy Riot leader cost $10 a month. The account was created in July 2021.

Sochi detention

In February 2014, Tolokonnikova and

were detained in

Sochi Sochi ( rus, Сочи, p=ˈsotɕɪ, a=Ru-Сочи.ogg, from – ''seaside'') is the largest Resort town, resort city in Russia. The city is situated on the Sochi (river), Sochi River, along the Black Sea in the North Caucasus of Souther ...

by the Adler Police in connection with an alleged hotel theft. They were released without charge. On February 19, footage surfaced showing Tolokonnikova and the other Pussy Riot members being attacked with

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s by

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, who were helping in patrolling Sochi during the Winter Olympics.

2022 meeting with US State Department

Nadya Tolokonnikova meets with Ned Price and Antony Blinken of the US State Department

Tolokonnikova met with Secretary of State

Antony Blinken Antony John Blinken (born April 16, 1962) is an American lawyer and diplomat who served as the 71st United States secretary of state from 2021 to 2025. He previously served as Deputy National Security Advisor, deputy national security advisor ...

to discuss freedom of press worldwide, and in particular the future of independent media in Russia, such as Mediazona.

Maria Zakharova Maria Vladimirovna Zakharova (, ; born 24 December 1975) is a Russian politician who serves as the director of the information and press department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Russia), Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federa ...

, Spokeswoman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, reacted to this meeting on her official Telegram channel.

Works

In 2016, she wrote the

autobiographical An autobiography, sometimes informally called an autobio, is a self-written account of one's own life, providing a personal narrative that reflects on the author's experiences, memories, and insights. This genre allows individuals to share thei ...

book ''How to Start a Revolution'', published by

Penguin Publishing Group Penguin Group is a British trade book publisher and part of Penguin Random House, which is owned by the German media conglomerate Bertelsmann. The new company was created by a merger that was finalised on 1 July 2013, with Bertelsmann initiall ...

. Between 2018 and 2019, Tolokonnikova wrote music for and toured with the musical production ''Riot Days'', based on the book of the same name by

. In 2018, her book ''Read & Riot: A Pussy Riot Guide to Activism'' was published by

HarperCollins HarperCollins Publishers LLC is a British–American publishing company that is considered to be one of the "Big Five (publishers), Big Five" English-language publishers, along with Penguin Random House, Hachette Book Group USA, Hachette, Macmi ...

. It includes a reading list curated by Tolokonnikova of 123 books, articles, and tracts on protest theory. In 2022, Tolokonnikova founded Unicorn DAO, a collector's

decentralized autonomous organization A decentralized autonomous organization (DAO), sometimes called a decentralized autonomous corporation (DAC), is an organization managed in whole or in part by decentralized computer programs, with voting and finances handled through a decent ...

(DAO) dedicated to collecting and incubating

non-fungible token A non-fungible token (NFT) is a unique digital identifier that is recorded on a blockchain and is used to certify ownership and authenticity. It cannot be copied, substituted, or subdivided. The ownership of an NFT is recorded in the blockchai ...

s created by female,

non-binary Non-binary or genderqueer Gender identity, gender identities are those that are outside the male/female gender binary. Non-binary identities often fall under the transgender umbrella since non-binary people typically identify with a gende ...

, and

LGBTQ LGBTQ people are individuals who are lesbian, Gay men, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, or questioning (sexuality and gender), questioning. Many variants of the initialism are used; LGBTQIA+ people incorporates intersex, Asexuality, asexual, ...

+ artists in

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. The organization's goal is "rebalancing the scales for women-identifying and non-binary artists in a space that is already reflective of problematic gender norms". Unicorn DAO was launched following her work on Ukraine DAO, which raised $7M in

crypto Crypto commonly refers to: * Cryptography, the practice and study of hiding information * Cryptocurrency, a type of digital currency based on cryptography Crypto or krypto may also refer to: Cryptography * Cryptanalysis, the study of methods f ...

for Ukraine at the start of the

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On the Russian wanted list

In late March 2023, the Russian Interior Ministry put Tolokonnikova on their wanted list and opened an investigation against her for allegedly having insulted religious feelings of believers. On November 21, 2023, her arrest was ordered

in absentia ''In Absentia'' is the seventh studio album by British progressive rock band Porcupine Tree, first released on 24 September 2002. The album marked several changes for the band, with it being the first with new drummer Gavin Harrison and the f ...

by a Moscow court.

Personal life

Tolokonnikova is

pansexual Pansexuality is sexual, romantic, or emotional attraction towards people of all genders, or regardless of their sex or gender identity. Pansexual people may refer to themselves as gender-blind, asserting that gender and sex are not determ ...

. She was previously married to

. They have a daughter, who was born in 2008. Tolokonnikova became vegan in 2022. On January 12, 2024, she married John Caldwell in a "

gopnik A gopnik is a member of a Juvenile delinquency, delinquent subculture in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and in other Post-Soviet states, former Soviet republics—a young man (or a woman, a gopnitsa) of urban working-class background. The collectiv ...

" themed wedding, with IC3PEAK among the performers and

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as a guest.

Awards and honors

*2012 – ''

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s 100 Women of the Year. *2012 –

Sakharov Prize The Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, commonly known as the Sakharov Prize, is an honorary award for individuals or groups who have dedicated their lives to the defence of human rights and freedom of thought. Named after Russian scienti ...

, nominated. *2012 – LennonOno Grant for Peace, Pussy Riot. *2012 – Martin Luther "Fearless Word" Prize, nominated. *2012 –

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Krone, German Music Prize honoring courage. *2012 – Soratnik ("Companion") Prize. *2014 – Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought, 2014. *2014 – Prudential Eye Awards, Singapore. Digital/Video Category, nominated. *2015 – Arts and Humanity Award,

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/Richard Massey Foundation. *2019 – Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts Degree by

Rhode Island School of Design The Rhode Island School of Design (RISD , pronounced "Riz-D") is a private art and design school in Providence, Rhode Island. The school was founded as a coeducational institution in 1877 by Helen Adelia Rowe Metcalf, who sought to increase th ...

– for "powerful voice in the fight against tyranny". *2020 – A collaborative serigraph edition with poster artist

Zoltron Zoltron is an American rock music poster designer, street artist, and creative director. His posters are included in the collections of Victoria Albert Museum, London, de Young fine arts museum, San Francisco, SFMOMA, Los Angeles Museum of Contempo ...

is in the permanent collection of LACMA, as well as in The Victoria Albert Museum. *2019 – Best Art of the 21st Century – The ''Punk Prayer'' political art piece from 2012 was ranked in the top 5 of the Best Art of the 21st Century by ''

The Guardian ''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in Manchester in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'' and changed its name in 1959, followed by a move to London. Along with its sister paper, ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardi ...

''. *2022 – Outstanding Award by

OutRight Action International Outright International (Outright) is an LGBTIQ human rights non-governmental organization that addresses human rights violations and abuses against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people. OutRight International documents human ...

for her effort raising $7M in donation for Ukraine with the NFT Project Ukraine DAO. Given remotely at the Celebration of Courage Gala. *2023 – Woodie Guthrie Prize.

In popular culture

A documentary following the Pussy Riot court case, '' Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer'', debuted at the 2013

Sundance Film Festival The Sundance Film Festival is an annual film festival organized by the Sundance Institute. It is the largest independent film festival in the United States, with 423,234 combined in-person and online viewership in 2023. The festival has acted ...

. In 2015, Tolokonnikova and her Pussy Riot bandmates

and

appeared as themselves in Chapter 29 of ''

House of Cards A house of cards (also known as a card tower or card castle) is a structure created by stacking playing cards on top of each other, often in the shape of a pyramid. "House of cards" is also an expression that dates back to 1645 meaning a struc ...

'', a popular American

television drama In film and television show, television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or docudrama, semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humour, humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional te ...

series that airs on

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. In the show, Tolokonnikova and Alyokhina heavily criticized a fictionalized version of

Vladimir Putin Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (born 7 October 1952) is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer who has served as President of Russia since 2012, having previously served from 2000 to 2008. Putin also served as Prime Minister of Ru ...

(the character, Russian president Viktor Petrov, played by

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) for corruption, while dining in the

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. An interview between Jessica Williams,

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, and Tolokonnikova was featured in a November 2016 episode of the podcast

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. That same year, Tolokonnikova also appeared on a remix of the track "Jacked Up" by

Weezer Weezer is an American rock band formed in Los Angeles, California, in 1992. Since 2001, the band has consisted of Rivers Cuomo (lead vocals, guitar, keyboards), Patrick Wilson (drums, backing vocals), Brian Bell (guitar, keyboards, backing ...

on the deluxe edition of their eponymous album. In 2021, Tolokonnikova appeared on the track " Stop Making Stupid People Famous" by

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. It was released as a single on YouTube. She also sang some lyrics. An alternative version of Purge the Poison by

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contains a verse sung by Tolokonnikova.

Books

* Tolokonnikova, Nadya; Žižek, Slavoj (2014). ''Comradely Greetings: The Prison Letters of Nadya and Slavoj'' (paperback ed.). Verso. 112 pp. . * Tolokonnikova, Nadya; Alyokhina, Maria (2016). ''How to Start a Revolution'' (hardcover ed.).

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. 112 pp. . * Tolokonnikova, Nadya (2018). ''Read and Riot: A Pussy Riot Guide to Activism'' (hardcover ed.).

HarperOne HarperOne is a publishing imprint of HarperCollins, specializing in books that aim to "transform, inspire, change lives, and influence cultural discussions." Under the original name of Harper San Francisco, the imprint was founded in 1977 by 13 e ...

. 256 pp. . Also published as ''Rules for Rulebreakers: A Pussy Riot Guide to Protest''.

References

External links

"Pussy Riot's Nadya on Russophobia and Prison Under Putin"
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