Olga Nikolaevna Kabanova (October 28, 1898, Russian Empire - August 31, 1985, USA , San Francisco ) [1] - a volunteer of the First World War , volunteer . The heroine of the war of 1812 repeated the cavalry girl Nadezhda Durova , joining the army . Cavalier of St. George's Cross . Later - a participant in the White movement .
| Olga Nikolaevna Kabanova | |
|---|---|
| Date of Birth | October 28, 1898 |
| Place of Birth | Moscow , Russian Empire |
| Date of death | August 31, 1985 (86 years old) |
| Place of death | San Francisco , USA |
| Affiliation |  Russian empire White movement USA |
| Rank | voluntary |
| Battles / wars | World War I Civil War in Russia |
| Awards and prizes |  |
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Biography
Olga was born in 1898 in the family of a professor of medicine N. A. Kabanov . The family was civilian, her two brothers and sister also had nothing to do with military service and everyone became scientists.
World War I
Hiding the floor, under the name of Oleg Kabanov - like cavalry-girl Nadezhda Durova - at the age of 16, she entered the Russian Army as a volunteer at the beginning of the Great War [K 1] , although her older brother Alexander did not go to the front. In one of the battles, she was wounded by a bullet in the cheek right through, but, having refused hospitalization and evacuation to the rear, after the operation in the field infirmary she remained in combat formation. For military merits, she was awarded the St. George Cross [2] .
Civil War
After the October Revolution, she joined the Volunteer Army as a volunteer in the Don and fought with the Red Army as a part of the All-Union Socialist League and the Russian Army until the Crimean evacuation of Wrangel units in November 1920.
Emigration
In exile, she lived in the Kingdom of CXC . All under the same name Oleg studied at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Belgrade .
Only in the mid-1920s her secret was accidentally revealed. Soon after, she again met with her former colleague P. N. Zavadsky, the son of her commander Neil Pavlovich Zavadsky [3] , and they married him in Belgrade . They had two daughters. After receiving a medical education, Olga Nikolaevna worked as a rural doctor. Later, the family emigrated to the United States.
Olga Nikolaevna died in San Francisco , USA on August 31, 1985.
Her daughter, Olga Pavlovna Zavadskaya (after her second husband Kovanko), born. In September 1929, who died on September 17, 2009, she worked as a secretary of the association of Russian cadets and US veterans for more than a quarter of a century, helped the revival of cadet corps and the development of Suvorov schools in modern Russia, since her grandfather N.P. Zavadsky was an educational officer of the Vladimir Kiev cadet corps [4] , and father P. N. Zavadsky was brought up in the cadet corps in Sarajevo and was one of the active members of society. [5] [6] [7]
Comments
- ↑ The official and official name of the First World War.
Notes
- ↑ California, Death Index, 1940-1997 . search.ancestry.com. Date of treatment May 20, 2018.
- ↑ KABANOVA Olga Nikolaevna. // Russians in North America. Biographical Dictionary / Edited by K. M. Alexandrov , A. V. Tereshchuk. - Hamden; San Francisco; St. Petersburg, 2005 .-- 599 s. - ISBN 5-8465-0388-8
- ↑ Zavadsky Nil Pavlovich - Officers of the Russian Imperial Army . ria1914.info. Date of treatment May 20, 2018.
- ↑ Zavadsky, Nil Pavlovich - Vladimir Kiev Cadet Corps. 1851 10 / XII 1901: East. Essay - Search RSL . search.rsl.ru. Date of treatment May 20, 2018.
- ↑ O.P. Zavadskaya died. House of Russian Abroad named after Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
- ↑ Speech by Major General Vladimirov
- ↑ Olga Pavlovna Zavadskaya. Letter.
Sources
- KABANOVA Olga Nikolaevna. Russians in North America. Biographical Dictionary / Edited by K. M. Alexandrov , A. V. Tereshchuk. - Hamden (Connecticut, USA) - San Francisco (USA) - St. Petersburg (Russia), 2005-599. ISBN 5-8465-0388-8
- Obituary // NV [Our News (New York - Monterey - Santa Rosa)]. 1997. No. 448.
- I. B. Ivanov, Our News, No. 448/2749, September 1997.