Maria Botchkareva tells her own story: a childhood of toil, marriage at fifteen, following a man into Siberian exile, enlisting by the Tsar’s special permission and fighting in no man’s land. In 1917 she formed the women’s Battalion of Death, welcomed visitors such as Emmeline Pankhurst, and was caught up in the revolution.
An extraordinary life, set down by the journalist Isaac Don Levine from her own telling. Download the free EPUB.