Yashka My Life as Peasant, Officer and Exile: the Recollections of the Founder and Commander of the Russian Women's Battalion of Death During the Firs Richard G. Rento Originally published in the 1980s

Originally published in the 1980s

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Peter \"Pistol Pete\" Rollack and George \"Boy George\" Rivera

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Author: Marlene Caroselli

Yashka My Life as Peasant, Officer and Exile: the Recollections of the Founder and Commander of the Russian Women's Battalion of Death During the Firs Richard G. Rento Originally published in the 1980sThe modern 'Joan of Arc' of the Great War and Russian Revolution This the story of an astonishing life told in her own words. Maria Botchkareva (whose nickname was Yashka) was not only a soldier in the Russian Army who fought in combat during the First World War, she was also the first woman to command a military unit in the Russian Army. Born a peasant, Yashka left home at 16 years old, coerced into prostitution and tramped into exile on foot