There is such an expression: "War doesn't have a woman's face." It seems that it was born to be refuted without fail. This has been done many times by our Russian women. In all the harsh times, they stood shoulder to shoulder with men in a single battle formation to fight the enemy. Thousands of female medics, signalmen, intelligence officers, and pilots performed their feats in the war. This alone puts our mothers, wives, and sisters on a special pedestal - a pedestal of courage and holiness. And yet, there were and still are such combat specialties, the specifics of which seem to reject a woman. How many examples do we know of women serving as tankers, submariners, and infantrymen during the Great Patriotic War? Few. Probably, it turned out this way because the psychological factor also worked. It is one thing when special units were formed, which included only women (medical battalions, sapper companies, anti-aircraft crews), and quite another - to fight a woman where there are only men nearby. It is difficult in everyday life, and in moral terms. However, the history of the country's military affairs also preserves the most exceptional cases when Russian women, when they went to war, fought in non - "female" troops in order to serve the state. Take at least the heroine of the Patriotic war of 1812, the cavalryman-the girl Nadezhda Durova, who later wrote a wonderful book. Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin treated this amazing woman with respect and respect. Her image is inspired by the plot of the film "Hussar Ballad". Cavalryman-maiden N1 received wide fame and fame. Nadezhda Durova until recently, in fact, was considered the only one of its kind. And she had followers. I know about one of them with absolute accuracy and I want to tell my readers. Her fate has a lot in common with the legendary Nadezhda Durova, but with amendments to another era. The author of these lines has known Olga Yefimovna Leonova for many years. Olga grew up as a bedova girl, led the ... Read more