Alexandra Kudasheva [SEP] sex or gender
Alexandra Kudasheva
Madame Colonel Alexandra Kudasheva (1873–1921?) was a Russian sportswoman and female soldier, notable both for her endurance riding feats, and for commanding of one of the first fully integrated combat units during World War I.
Biography.
Kudasheva was a daughter of a soldier in the Orenburg Cossack Host. One source say that she was born during the campaign against Khiva in 1873, orphaned at a young age, and grew up among soldiers; another mentions qualifications in both medicine and veterinary medicine, travels in India
. She may have been the Alexandra Gerasimova Kudachev who was executed by the Cheka in 1921 in what is now Kazakhstan.
Sources.
- Excerpts from newspaper reports and memoirs concerning Alexandra Kudasheva (in Russian).
- Biographical entry in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (in Russian).
- Biography with photograph (in Russian).
- Another biography with additional information (in Russian).
- English-language newspaper report from 1915 on Colonel Kudasheva's First World War career.
- Memoir of