A nun, a witch or a warrior?
The Book Day channel published a conversation about Elena Arzamasskaya.
She was called the Russian Joan of Arc, the leader of the rebellion and the sorceress. But what if most of the Elena Marzamas story was made up hundreds of years later? Historian Alexei Malishev examines the fate of the mysterious participant in the Stepan Razin rebellion, about whom only a few conflicting testimonies have survived. The issue includes versions of the Old Believers, the mysterious life of the nun Martha, and the transformation of an almost unknown woman into a national hero. Did she really command the army and why was she executed?
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