The Cavalry Maiden - Journals of a Russian Officer in the Napoleonic Wars

'I have heard, ' said the tsar...'that you are not a man. Is that true?' In December 1807, Alexander I granted a commission to Nadezhda Durova who, in male guide, served nearly ten years in the Russian light cavalry during the Napoleonic wars. The Cavalry Maiden, a selection of the edited journals of her military service, first published in 1836 with Pushkin's encouragement, is a lively narrative Russian life on and off the battlefield in the Alexandrine era.

List of contents

Translator's Introduction: Nadezhda Durova, Russia's Cavalry Maiden

The Cavalry Maiden

"My Childhood Years"

Notes of the Cavalry Maiden

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Appendix A: Documents Relating to Durova's Commission in the Mariupol' Hussars

Appendix B: Hussar Poet Denis Davydov's Recorded Comments on Durova

Selective Bibliography of Works by and about Durova

Index

About the author

Nadezhda Durova

Product details

• Authors: Nadezhda Durova, Mary Fleming Zirin
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.08.1989
• EAN: 9780253205490
• ISBN: 978-0-253-20549-0
• No. of pages: 286
• Dimensions: 15 mm x 23 mm x 2 mm
• Weight: 458 g
• Series: Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian and East European Studies; Indiana-Michigan Russian and E; Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History