2-981-384 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Les Soubresauts de la Russie; L'etat-major du bataillon feminin: au centre, Mme Botchkareva, la poitrine couverte de decorations; ses adjointes, diplomees d'Ecoles superieures, ont touts eté decorees pour faits de guerre anterieurs', 1917. Upheavals in Russia: 'the staff of the women's battalion: in the centre, Mme Botchkareva, her chest covered with decorations; her assistants, graduates of higher schools, have all been decorated for previous acts of war'. (Maria Bochkareva formed the 1st Russian Women's Battalion of Death, and was the first Russian woman to command a military unit). From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919, Volume 2" [L'Illustration, Paris, 1924].