Obuchenie gramote (Russian) Hardcover – 2008 by Perova O. (Author) Be the first to review this item.

Contents • • • • • • • • • Early life [ ] Nadezhda Durova was born in an army camp at, the daughter of a Russian. Her father placed her in the care of his soldiers after an incident that nearly killed her in infancy when her abusive mother threw her out the window of a moving carriage.

As a small child, Durova learned all the standard marching commands and her favorite toy was an unloaded gun. After her father retired from service, she continued playing with broken sabers and frightened her family by secretly taming a stallion that they considered unbreakable. In 1801, she married a judge V.S. Chernov and gave birth to a son in 1803. Some accounts claim that she ran away from her home with a officer in 1805. In 1807, at the age of twenty-four she disguised herself as a boy, deserted her son and husband, and bringing her horse Alkid, enlisted in the Polish Horse Regiment (later classified as ) under the alias Alexander Sokolov. Nadezhda Durova at about age thirteen Durova was fiercely patriotic and considered army life to be freedom.

She enjoyed animals and the outdoors. She felt she had little talent for traditional women's work. In her memoirs, she described an unhappy relationship with her mother, warmth toward her father, and nothing at all about her own married life.

Military service [ ] She fought in the major Russian engagements of the. During two of those battles, she saved the lives of two fellow Russian soldiers.

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The first was an enlisted man who fell off his horse on the battlefield and suffered a concussion. She gave him first aid under heavy fire and brought him to safety as the army retreated around them. The second was an officer, unhorsed but uninjured. Three French were closing on him. She couched her and scattered the enemy. Then, against regulations, she let the officer borrow her own horse to hasten his retreat, which left her more vulnerable to attack. During the campaign, she wrote a letter to her family explaining her disappearance.

They used their connections in a desperate attempt to locate her. The rumor of an in the army reached, who took a personal interest. Durova's chain of command reported that her courage was peerless. Summoned to the palace at, she impressed the so much that he awarded her the and promoted her to in a unit ( ). The story that there was the heroine in the army with the name Alexander Sokolov had become well known by that time. So the Tsar awarded her a new, Alexandrov, based on his own name. Durova's youthful appearance hurt her chances for promotion.