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.

Table des matières

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

A propos de l'auteur

Nadezhda Durova

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Nadezhda Durova, Mary Fleming Zirin
• Edition: Indiana University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 01.08.1989
• EAN: 9780253205490
• ISBN: 978-0-253-20549-0
• Pages: 286
• Dimensions: 15 mm x 23 mm x 2 mm
• Poids: 458 g
• Thèmes: Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian and East European Studies; Indiana-Michigan Russian and E; Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Catégorie: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Histoire