The Cavalry Maiden: Journals of a Female Russian Officer in the Napoleonic Wars (Paladin Books)

London, Glasgow: Paladin, 1990. - 242 с. Перевод с русского: Mary Fleming Zimin scan, одностраничный разворот In December 1807 Tsar Alexander I personally granted a commission in the hussars to a young cavalryman who had shown exceptional valour in that summer’s campaign against the French. The Tsar knew - and some fellow officers soon guessed - that this brave soldier was a woman. Disguised as a man, Nadezhda Durova served nearly ten years in the Russian light cavalry during the Napoleonic Wars. The Cavalry Maiden is her lively account of war and peace through these years - of combat against Napoleon on Prussian territory in 1807, and again in 1812 at the Battle of Borodino and its aftermath; the peacetime but still rigorous life of Russian soldiers billeted in the Polish lands of Western Russia; and above all, a man s world as seen through the eyes of a strong-willed young gentlewoman quick to perceive male foibles. In December 1807 Tsar Alexander I personally granted a commission in the hussars to a young cavalryman who had shown exceptional valor in the summer's campaign against the French. The Tsar knew, and some fellow officers soon guessed, that this brave soldier was a woman