Nadezhda Durova. Russian Amazon

Thanks to the movie & Quot, Gusar Ballad & Quot, some facts from the biography of the first Russian woman officer, famous & quot, Cavalist-girls & quot, Hope Durov, became widely known. But Durov lived a long, difficult and far from an unequivocal life. She served in the Russian imperial army for about ten years, was familiar with many outstanding figures of the era of Alexander the first and with the sovereign himself. Her literary talent was highly appreciated by A.S. Pushkin. So why did she have a little expected for educated secular lady? What is her mystery - in a simple attempt to emancipation, anticipating feminist cases? Or is it the desire of the feat in the name of the rescue of the Fatherland, the non-influxous differences in sex and age?