"Maria Botchkareva et "le bataillon de la mort"" Topic
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Tango01  | 10 Aug 2024 4:49 p.m. PST |
"Thanks to the February Revolution of 1917, Russian women suddenly gained the right to vote, to enter professions from which they had previously been excluded, and to receive equal pay to men in the civil service. In this context of revolutionary fervour, Maria Leontevna Botchkareva, a semi-literate peasant woman from Siberia, proposed creating a women's unit in the Russian army. Born into poverty, forced to work from the age of 8, she fled her first alcoholic husband only to share, later, her lover's exile. She addressed the Tsar to ask him to join the army. This address was not exceptional since, from the beginning of the Great War, the Russian army faced numerous petitions from women wishing to take part in the fighting. Some even pretended to be men within different units. As early as 1915, in the context of Russian military defeats, the Ministry of War authorised such engagements…"
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