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Yashka

by Maria Bochkareva

A Russian peasant leaves exile in Siberia to fight for her country in World War I.

Themes: Memoir · Biography

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Your father was born a serf. Your mother, at ten, was hunted by wolves. You came into a house without bread—this is where Maria Bochkareva's story begins.

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