Ruslan
Subtitle: a novel
By: Barbara Scrupski.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Crown Publishers
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 447
Subjects: Passing (Identity) -- Fiction.; Women soldiers -- Fiction.; Poor women -- Fiction.; Nobility -- Fiction.; Russia -- History -- Nicholas II, 1894-1917 -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Left penniless thanks to her spendthrift father, Countess Alexandra Korvin struggles to restore her fortunes, until, craving freedom and rebelling against the confines of being a woman, she cuts off her hair and joins the army as a man.