Надежда Андреевна Дурова цитаты

Наде́жда Андре́евна Ду́рова — русская кавалеристка, офицер Русской императорской армии, участница Отечественной войны 1812 года ; писательница. В литературе и СМИ её часто называют первой русской женщиной-офицером, что в целом не соответствует истине. Wikipedia

✵ 17. Сентябрь 1783 – 21. Март 1866

Надежда Андреевна Дурова: Цитаты на английском языке

“My mother, who disliked me from the bottom of her heart, deliberately did everything, it seemed, that would strengthen and intensify my unbounded passion for freedom and a military life. She wouldn't let me walk in the garden. She wouldn't let me be away from her for even half an hour: I had to sit in her bedroom and make lace. She herself taught me to sew, to knit, and seeing that I had neither the desire nor the ability for this sort of work, that in my hands everything tore or broke, she became angry, lost control of herself, and beat me very painfully on the hands.”

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Nadezhda Durova

Translated by Mary Fleming Zirin (1989). The Cavalry Maiden: Journals of a Russian Officer in the Napoleonic Wars. Indiana University Press. ISBN 0253205492.