Margarita Romanovna Kokovtseva, generally named in English sources as Olga Kokovtseva, was a female soldier in an
Imperial Russian Army
The Imperial Russian Army (russian: Ру́сская импера́торская а́рмия, tr. ) was the armed land force of the Russian Empire, active from around 1721 to the Russian Revolution of 1917. In the early 1850s, the Russian Ar ...
cavalry unit during
World War I. Wounded in combat and decorated for bravery, she appears to have been involved with establishing a hospital for injured servicemen.
English-language sources state that she rose to the rank of captain or even colonel in the 6th
Ural Cossack
The Ural Cossack Host was a cossack host formed from the Ural Cossacks – those Eurasian cossacks settled by the Ural River. Their alternative name, Yaik Cossacks, comes from the old name of the river.
They were also known by the names:
*Rus ...
Regiment, but this may be through confusion with Mme. Col.
Alexandra Kudasheva
Madame Colonel Alexandra Kudasheva (1873–1921?) was a Russian sportswoman and female soldier, notable both for her endurance riding feats, and for commanding of one of the first fully integrated combat units during World War I.
Biography
Kudash ...
, the female commanding officer of that unit.
Sources
Russianversion of her biography (in Russian)
Englishversion.
Scholarly articlementioning Margarita Kokovtseva. (login required)
Russian military personnel of World War I
Russian women in World War I
Women in the Imperial Russian military
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