Maria Nikolaevna Skrydlova is the adjutant of Maria Bochkareva [1] in the Women's Death Battalion during the First World War.
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Biography
Daughter of Skrydlov Nikolay Illarionovich and Olga Avgustovna Leibrok. Father served as commander of the Black Sea Fleet. During the February Revolution, his father was severely wounded, after which he was sent to hospital.
She saw how her own father was attacked on the street by soldiers, and only his sailors who loved him insisted that this officer not be killed. - Rita Dorr [2]
Then, having asked for the blessings of her father-admiral, in the days of the Great War she enlisted in the 1st Women's Military Battalion of Maria Bochkareva [3] .
Women need to do more than bandage men's wounds. - Maria Skrydlova
After the events of the First World War, she lived for some time in Soviet Russia, after which in 1926, after marrying a Bavarian industrialist Richard, she left Russia. Her further fate is still unknown.
In culture
Writer Boris Akunin wrote a detective story “ The Battalion of Angels ”, which takes place in 1917 in the women's death squadron. From the real prototypes in the book are shown the daughter of Admiral Skrydlov (under the name of Alexander Shatskaya) and Maria Bochkareva . However, in the book Akunin Shatskaya (unlike his prototype) dies in battle.
Literature
- D. Shpilenko. Materials for the genealogy of the Smolensk nobility .. - M .: Old Basmannaya, 2006. - P. 201. - 304 p. - 500 copies - ISBN 5-8122-0320-2 .
Notes
- ↑ Shpilenko D.P. Materials on the genealogy of the Smolensk nobility., 2006 , p. 201
- ↑ Maria Skrydlova .
- ↑ Maria Nikolaevna Skrydlova - Adjutant M.L. Bochkareva Neopr .