Essay on Princess Dashkova

Finally with her freedom came responsibility. She was responsible for taking in two young men. “My squadron commander got the fantastic notion of sending the youngest men to be orderlies, and under this disposition the choice fell on me” (93). Another responsibility Nadezhda Durova had taken place after she had transferred regiments. She and her group of men were responsible for getting hay. While out she decided to wander off to find her horse so she told the sergeant to lead the men to find the hay. “Stackelberg sent me for hay for the regimental horses…I charged the sergeant to lead the detachment at a walk to the forest nearby, and myself did not so much gallop as jolt my way as fast as I could to the village where I hoped to find our reserve horses”(149). The responsibility that young girls had in the eighteenth century was bobbin lace. “From morning to night I sat over worked which, I must confess, was the vilest imaginable because, unlike other girls, I could not, would not, and did not want to acquire the skill…my bobbin lace” (7). Even though she had more freedom her responsibility became more challenging.

Eloquent, brilliant, unorthodox, poise, and loyal – all of these unique characteristics allowed Dashkova to gain the highest regard among the members of the elite society and more importantly, to earn the respect of Catherine the Great. Dashkova is a peculiar female character. She’s fully narcissistic, but at the same time, rejects her recognition and claims herself as unworthy of the credits Catherine II had given her. In her autobiography The Memoirs of Princess Dashkova, Dashkova justifies her role as a noble woman, her early-life contribution in helping Catherine rise to the throne, and the frugal life she bore as a widow and a mother of two. Dashkova voiced her significance in a society where

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Ukrainian, Elena Grigorievna Ponomarenko and Russian Vera Ivanovna Malakhova shared one inevitable thing in common and that was the USSR, formally known as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. This spread of communism would take a place in these women’s lives affecting their ideology. Elena allowed communism to be the foundation of her life, while Vera used to advance in the education system and become a physician. Despite the views these women had on communism, communism helped both Elena and Vera achieve their social status as well as privileges.

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Kovalskaia is the only one of the five sisters to have been born a peasant. From the very beginning, not only was Kovalskaia exposed to the life of peasantry, but also she lived in it. “From my earliest years, life seemed incomprehensible and cruel to me. I think I was barely six when I became aware that there were landowners and peasant serfs in the world; that landowners could sell people, and that my father could separate my mother and me by selling her to one neighboring landowner and me to another.”5 She eventually escaped the title of “serf” when she asked her father for her freedom for her and her mother at age seven. As Kovalskaia grew up she was influenced by a majority of people. She would hear stories from milkmaids that would terrify her, “‘You’ll grow up someday, too—and then they’ll sell you.’ I was tormented by nightmares: I dreamt that they were selling me.”6 Many people she interacted with spoke unkindly of the tsar and of the fates of those who tried to oppose him. All of these events left such an impression of Kovalskaia that eventually led her to become a feminist. After being enrolled in schools fit for the daughter of a wealthy landowner, Kovalskaia used the estate that her father had left her to organize women’s groups in which Kovalskaia gave free courses for women seeking higher education. One group led to another and eventually Kovalskaia worked in a group devoted to women workers and taught bits of socialism. These groups were eventually ordered to discontinue. Kovalskaia moved to Zurich where she was really exposed to revolutionary ideas and aligned herself with Bakuninism. Here she really took an interest in educating the factory workers and spreading

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Unlike the Continental Op, Princess Zhukovski allows some of her most significant actions to be ruled by her own gender stereotyping. To begin with, the princess is taken by surprise when the Op announces his suspicions of her. Her reaction proves that she does not believe he would come to those conclusions, not only because she is of royal birth but also because she is a woman. Once the princess realizes she is found out, Zhukovski attempts to gain sympathy from the Continental Op by expressing the woes of her troublesome past life. She laments, “There was no place for us in world. Outcasts easily become outlaws” (Hammett 250). Zhukovski hopes that her sob story will touch the heart of the Continental Op and that her portrayal of the damsel in distress will drive the point home, but the Continental Op is having none of it. Growing in desperation, the princess plays her last card by seductively offering herself to him, and it appears it is a hand she has played before. Zhukovski expects even the strongest-willed men to bend before her at the promise of a sexual favor.

Demonstrates Lady Catherine’s role to protect the high class and prestige of her descendants through marriage.

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