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Nadezhda Durova proshla put ot ryadovogo soldata do shtabs-rotmistra i za sovershennye podvigi i otvagu byla nagrazhdena soldatskim Georgievskim krestom. Desyat let ona provela na polyakh srazheniy, byla uchastnitsey dvukh zagranichnykh pokhodov i Otechestvennoy voyny 1812 goda. Sluzhila ordinartsem u Mikhaila Kutuzova, a imperator Aleksandr I voskhishchalsya khrabrostyu zhenshchiny i ee zhelaniem sluzhit Rodine.Biografiya Durovoy udivitelna i dramatichna, svoyu unikalnuyu istoriyu ona opisala v memuarakh Zapiski kavalerist-devitsy. Velikiy poet Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin byl v vostorge ot udivitelnoy zhizni i literaturnogo talanta etoy nezauryadnoy zhenshchiny i izdal istoriyu kavalerist-devitsy v svoem zhurnale Sovremennik.