Yelena Shidyanskaya

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Yelena Shidyanskaya
Native name	Елена Ивановна Шидянская
Born	1755 (1755)
Died	1849 (aged 93–94) Simferopol, Crimea
Allegiance	Russian Empire
Rank	Captain
Commands held	Amazon 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. 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.

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