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Marina Yurlova ((ロシア語:Мари́на Максимилиа́новна Ю́рлова); 25 February 1900 - 1 April 1984) was a Russian child soldier and author. She was born in Raevskaya, a small village near Krasnodar.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Marina Yurlova )〕 The daughter of a colonel of the Kuban Cossacks, she was just 14 years old when her father went to war in August 1914. In the search for her father, she became a child soldier in the Russian army at age 14.〔 Specifically, she joined the Reconnaissance Sotnia (100 horse squadron) of the 3rd Ekaterinodar Regiment. Yurlova originally worked as a groom in Armenia; however, after two months of this she was sent to fight the Turkish Army.〔 In 1915, she was shot in the leg while blasting bridges across the Araxes River near Yerevan.〔 She was treated at the Red Cross hospital in Baku and then returned to the Eastern Front.〔 In 1916 she was again wounded and also had a mental breakdown and was sent to an asylum.〔 However, in 1919, she was released. In 1922, she immigrated to the United States, where she performed as a dancer. She married filmmaker William C. Hyer and became a U.S. citizen in 1926.〔 Yurlova published two autobiographies, ''Cossack Girl'' (1934) and ''Russia Farewell'' (1936).〔 In 1984, she died at the age of 84 years. She won the Cross of Saint George for Bravery three times.〔 ==In popular culture== Yurlova is one of those whose wartime experiences are described in ''Women Heroes of World War I: 16 Remarkable Resisters, Soldiers, Spies, and Medics'' by Kathryn J. Atwood in the ''Chicago Review Press''. She is one of the 14 main characters of the series ''14 - Diaries of the Great War''. She is played by actress Natalia Witmer. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Marina Yurlova」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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