The article analyzes a number of works of fiction featuring Nadezhda Durova and traces how the myth about the Cavalry Maiden was formed during the 19th and the 20th centuries. A hypothesis is advanced that in the first forty years of its existence in fiction, the story of Durova became a stable system with a certain set of interpretations of the main character's image and genre realizations. The plot has been reproduced repeatedly over the past 150 years, and any serious changes in social and political situation set off a new cycle for the implementation of the plot.
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