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Nadezhda Durova

1783 - 1866

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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. He participated in the war, and published his memoirs after his service. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nadezhda Durova has received more than 133,653 page views. Her biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Nadezhda Durova is the 1,129th most popular military personnel (down from 1,027th in 2019), the 962nd most popular biography from Russia (down from 339th in 2019) and the 88th most popular Russian Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Nadezhda Durova ranks 1,129 out of 2,058. Before her are Manuel Erotikos Komnenos, Neoptolemus, Alexander Matrosov, Mikhail Dmitrievich Gorchakov, Max Pauly, and Petar Bojović. After her are Pierre André de Suffren, Arthur Rostron, Edward Vernon, Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, Robert Gould Shaw, and Doris Miller.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1783, Nadezhda Durova ranks 25. Before her are Prince Wilhelm of Prussia, Augustus, Grand Duke of Oldenburg, Georgios Sinas, Ernst Gottlieb von Steudel, Princess Amelia of the United Kingdom, and Julius Klaproth. After her are Cheung Po Tsai, Charles-Louis Havas, Charles Julien Brianchon, Guglielmo Pepe, Pattimura, and Erik Gustaf Geijer. Among people deceased in 1866, Nadezhda Durova ranks 21. Before her are Rikard Nordraak, Winfield Scott, Alexander von Nordmann, Madame Clicquot Ponsardin, George Ord, and Massimo d'Azeglio. After her are Menachem Mendel Schneersohn, Carl Jonas Love Almqvist, Mikhail Muravyov-Vilensky, Luigi Carlo Farini, Jules Dupuit, and Adrien-François Servais.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Nadezhda Durova ranks 962 out of 3,761. Before her are Friedrich von Lütke (1797), Aleksey Khomyakov (1804), Semyon Bychkov (1952), Mikhail Pletnev (1957), Georgy Vitsin (1917), and Eero Järnefelt (1863). After her are Pavel Pestel (1793), Vladimir Sorokin (1955), Abdurreshid Ibrahim (1857), Valery Nepomnyashchy (1943), Mikhail Romm (1901), and Viktor Afanasyev (1948).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Russia

Among military personnels born in Russia, Nadezhda Durova ranks 88. Before her are Semyon Kurkotkin (1917), Maria Bochkareva (1889), Alexey Maresyev (1916), Aleksandr Dvornikov (1961), Pavel Rotmistrov (1901), and Franz Moritz von Lacy (1725). After her are Pavel Grachev (1948), Semyon Krivoshein (1899), Ivan Tyulenev (1892), Andrei Shkuro (1887), Alexander Tormasov (1752), and Viktor Zolotov (1954).

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