Yelena Shidyanskaya

Yelena Shidyanskaya
Native name
Елена Ивановна Шидянская
Born1755 (1755)
Died1849 (aged 93–94)
Simferopol, Crimea
AllegianceRussian Empire
RankCaptain
CommandsAmazon company

Yelena Ivanovna Shidyanskaya (Russian: Елена Ивановна Шидянская) nee Yelena Ivanovna Sardanova (Russian: Елена Ивановна Сарданова), 1755–1849) was a Greek-Russian military commander.[1]

She was an ethnic Greek Crimean appointed commander of the "Amazon company" appointed by Grigory Potemkin to serve during the visit of Catherine the Great to the Crimea in 1787.[2] While this military unit was largely ceremonial and existed only during Catherine's visit, it was nevertheless formally a military unit during its existence, and Yelena Shidyanskaya was thereby the first woman in Russia to be appointed to the post of commander of a military unit.

References

  1. ^ .Ф. Домбровский. «Капитан амазонской роты» (Одесский Вестник, 1849, № 1)
  2. ^ Sebag Montefiore, S. (2005). Potemkin och Katarina den stora: en kejserlig förbindelse. Sverige: Prisma.


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