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Russian military officer and writer (1783–1866)
In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Andreyevna and the family name is Durova.
Nadezhda Durova
Надежда Дурова
Portrait by Woldemar Hau, 1837
Born
(1783-09-17)September 17, 1783
Died
March 21, 1866(1866-03-21) (aged 82)
Yelabuga, Russia
Nadezhda Andreyevna Durova (Russian: Надежда Андреевна Дурова; September 17, 1783 – March 21, 1866), also known as Alexander Durov, Alexander Sokolov and Alexander Andreevich Alexandrov, was a Russian cavalry soldier and writer who participated in the Napoleonic Wars.
Assigned female at birth, he ran away from home and lived as a man while enlisting in an uhlan (light cavalry) regiment.[1] He participated in the war, and published his memoirs after his service. He is regarded as one of the first known female officers in the Russian military. He received the Cross of St. George for bravery.[1] His memoir, The Cavalry Maiden, is a significant document of its era because few junior officers of the Napoleonic Wars published their experiences, and because it is one of the earliest autobiographies in the Russian language.[2] Its title encompasses much of the historical and scholarly debate over how to refer to his gender: Alexandrov himself wanted it published as Notes of Alexsandrov under his male name, but to his distress publisher Aleksandr Pushkin changed it to the feminine Notes of N.A. Durova, and the editor of the first book edition retitled it to the even more feminine Cavalry Maiden.[3]
^ abPushkareva, Natalia (3 March 1997). Women in Russian History: From the Tenth to the Twentieth Century. M.E. Sharpe. pp. 212–213. ISBN 978-0-7656-3270-8.
^Robinson, Lillian S.; Women, Stanford University Center for Research on (1 January 1990). Revealing Lives: Autobiography, Biography, and Gender. SUNY Press. p. 43. ISBN 978-0-7914-0435-5.
^Averbach, Ruth (December 2022). "The (Un)making of a Man: Aleksandr Aleksandrov/Nadezhda Durova". Slavic Review. 81 (4): 976–993. doi:10.1017/slr.2023.8. ISSN 0037-6779.
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