Nadezhda Andreyevna Durova, also known as Alexander Durov, Alexander Sokolov and Alexander Andreevich Alexandrov, was a woman who, while disguised as a man, became a decorated soldier in the Russian cavalry during the Napoleonic Wars. She was one of the first known female officers in the Russian military. Her memoir, The Cavalry Maiden, is a significant document of its era because few junior officers of the Napoleonic Wars published their experiences, and because it is one of the earliest autobiographies in the Russian language.
Nadezhda Dmitryevna Khvoshchinskaya, was a Russian novelist, poet, literary critic and translator. Her married name was Zayonchkovskaya. She published much of her work under the pseudonym V. Krestovsky. She later added "alias" to her pseudonym to avoid being confused with the writer Vsevolod Krestovsky.
Nadezhda Pavlovna Kozhushanaya was a Soviet, Russian screenwriter and writer. Nadezhda said: "I live and write with love to my crazy time”. She was a philologist and a musician by education, a playwright by vocation. Although she died at the age of 44, she was referred to as “The most gifted screenwriter of the perestroika epoch”.
Nadezhda Yakovlevna Mandelstam was a Russian Jewish writer and educator, and the wife of the poet Osip Mandelstam who died in 1938 in a transit camp to the gulag of Siberia. She wrote two memoirs about their lives together and the repressive Stalinist regime: Hope Against Hope (1970) and Hope Abandoned (1974), both first published in the West in English, translated by Max Hayward.
Nadezhda Aleksandrovna Ruchka born 16 April 1981) is a Russian singer-songwriter, actress, model, and poet. Soloist of the female pop group "Blestyashchiye".
Nadezhda Stepanovna Sokhanskaia was a Russian short story writer and autobiographer who wrote about the Ukraine, using the pen name Kokhanovskaya (Кохановская).
