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Nadezhda Durova. The Cavalry Maiden. Journals of a Russian Officer in the Napoleonic Wars. Translated, annotated, and introduced by Mary Fleming Zirin. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988. xxxvii, 242 pp. $25.00/$11.95.

Nadezhda Durova. The Cavalry Maiden. Journals of a Russian Officer in the Napoleonic Wars.... vate health s o m e t i m e s leads him to e m p h a s i z e those issues m o r e than others o f seemingly equal or greater importance. One wishes, for example, that other events had been described as fully and in as much detail as the pestilence o f the early 1770s. Some readers may also c o m e away from this book with the feeling that they have learned as m u c h about Catherine's digestive processes as they have about her mental processes, but Catherine was something o f a hypochondriac, whose concern with her health equalled that o f the author. To his great credit Alexander deals frankly and sensibly with Catherine's love life and sexual conduct keeping those subjects in per- spective and treating them as an important part, but not a disproportionately impor- tant part o f h e r biography. In a thirteen page "epilogue" Alexander recounts and discusses the ways in which Catherine the Great has been represented and misrepresented by contemporaries and subsequent generations. Some o f the examples are trivial, and some of the explana- tions, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Russian History Brill

Nadezhda Durova. The Cavalry Maiden. Journals of a Russian Officer in the Napoleonic Wars. Translated, annotated, and introduced by Mary Fleming Zirin. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988. xxxvii, 242 pp. $25.00/$11.95.

Koblitz, Ann Hibner
Russian History , Volume 17 (1): 88 – Jan 1, 1990
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© 1990 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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vate health s o m e t i m e s leads him to e m p h a s i z e those issues m o r e than others o f seemingly equal or greater importance. One wishes, for example, that other events had been described as fully and in as much detail as the pestilence o f the early 1770s. Some readers may also c o m e away from this book with the feeling that they have learned as m u c h about Catherine's digestive processes as they have about her mental processes, but Catherine was something o f a hypochondriac, whose concern with her health equalled that o f the author. To his great credit Alexander deals frankly and sensibly with Catherine's love life and sexual conduct keeping those subjects in per- spective and treating them as an important part, but not a disproportionately impor- tant part o f h e r biography. In a thirteen page "epilogue" Alexander recounts and discusses the ways in which Catherine the Great has been represented and misrepresented by contemporaries and subsequent generations. Some o f the examples are trivial, and some of the explana- tions,

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