num_pages: 288
description: ..". sparkles with wit, intelligence and bold characterization." --Women's Review of Books..". a ripping yarn... admirable translation... sensitive introductory essay." --Times Literary Supplement..". a remarkable journal worthy of the attention of a wide audience." --Doris Grumbach, National Public RadioIn male guise, Nadezhda Durova served ten years in the Russian cavalry. The Cavalry Maiden is a lively narrative which appeals in our own time as a unique and gripping contribution to the literature of female experience.
language: English
title: The Cavalry Maiden: Journals of a Russian Officer in the Napoleonic Wars
titlecomplete: The Cavalry Maiden: Journals of a Russian Officer in the Napoleonic Wars (Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian and East European Studies)
genres: Russian History, Womens, Autobiography, Nonfiction, Russian Literature, History, Russia, 19th Century, Memoir, Biography
ratings_count: 225
series: Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian and East European Studies
publisher: Indiana University Press