Biography
Around the personality of Vasilisa leaning makes a lot of legends and guesses, which is associated with a lack of reliable sources. The woman left the memory of himself in history thanks to the empires that distinguished themselves during the Patriotic War of 1812.Childhood and youth
Vasilisa Kozyin was born around 1780 on the farm Goshkov, located in the Smolensk province, in the peasant family. The exact information about her date of birth, early years of biographies and parents have not been preserved. According to legends, the woman was famous for decisiveness, courage and firm character. It was strong, high growth and wore a male haircut, for which it is often mentioned as a hectare.
Personal life
About the personal life of Vasilisa knows a little. She was a wife of a rural headman, so it was nicknamed old age. Some sources claim that sheinin has five children. The fate of the husband of the Russian heroine is also shrouded in legends. According to the common version, he died during a raid on the French farm, but some sources claim that the man led the guerrilla struggle on a par with his wife. His name is also mentioned in different ways, Dmitry or Maxim.Feat
If you believe the assumptions about the death of her husband Vasilisa, then this sad fact inspired her to start a guerrilla struggle. On the day, the French, and a woman who enjoyed an uncompressed authority from fellow village ordered the tables to the farm, ordered the tables, and herself went to meet the enemy with bread and salt. After that, she invited them to the hut, fed, drank, and when they began to fit to sleep, closed the door and set fire to the wooden structure.
Having committed the first feat, Sheene stated that he was going to exterminate the invaders, and called to join her those who would also crave for meals. Since at that time, the men were in war, predominantly women and adolescents joined it. Armed with everything that was at hand - forks, axes and braids.
So a woman began the struggle on a par with the male partisan detachments, whose leaders were the leaders of Gerasim Kurin and Denis Davydov, and succeeded in this. According to legend, she even saw Mikhail Kutuzov himself, which made an impression. But there is no documentary confirmation of this, as well as the feats of the peasant.
But there is a lot of legends about it there, there is even a series of fours groups (drawings). According to People's Molvet, the skin was harsh in the struggle and without regret was launched with Napoleon's soldiers who pulled into her land, developing the plans of cunning sabotage, which would be amazed even experienced military leaders. But one day, the heart of the old age still trembled, and she was sheltered in the hives of the wounded Frenchman, who later found her and handed over the money reward. This testifies to the goodness and humanity of a woman.
Death
Skin died around 1840, the cause of death and burial place is unknown.Memory
After the folk heroine left his life, she was not forgotten. On the contrary, the image of a woman was used in the literature and cinema. Among the first, the Russian author Lion Tolstoy wrote about her, which mentioned the "Old Town Vasilis" in the 4th volume of the book "War and Peace".
Then the woman was the heroine of the film "1812", released in 1912 to the century of the end of the war. And the brightest use of the skin of the skin is the series "Vasilisa", where actress Svetlana Khodchenkova starred in the title role. The picture came out in 2013 and contains many historical inconsistencies. For example, the Russian peasant is freely expressing in French. But still the film has increased interest in personality and the fences of the hectares.
The memory of the woman was also immortalized in other forms. For example, her name is used in the names of the streets in Moscow, Mozhaisk and Sychevka. There is also a leather village located in the Smolensk region. And in honor of the 200th anniversary of the end of the Patriotic War, the Central Bank released 2 rubles (2012) with a portrait of the old age in the series "Partisans and Heroes of War". The price of the most expensive coin sold from the auction in 2016 was $ 66.