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The Amazons are a nation of female warriors in Greek myth.

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The Amazon (novella)

The Amazon (Вои′тельница; also, The Warrior Woman) is a short novel by Nikolai Leskov, first published in the April (vol.1; No.7) 1866 issue of Otechestvennye zapiski, with a dedication to the painter Mikhaylo Mikeshin whom the author was friends at the time. It featured in Novelets, Sketches and Stories by M.Stebnitsky (vol. 1, 1967) and later The Complete Leskov (1889), in slightly different version. The epigraph - "The whole of my life has been a set of lessons, of which my death is but another one" - comes from lyrical drama Lucius (Люций) by Apollon Maykov (Seneka's words in part 1 of it).

Synopsis

Domna Platonovna, a forceful and industrious woman who seems to be in contact with half of Saint Petersburgh, is in the state of permanent war with the outside world. Supplying people with laces (the major item of her trade) but also with all kinds of services (like setting marriages, not to speak of less formal liaisons) what she gets in return is coarse ingratitude from all quarters. At least that's how she sees it. To illustrate how badly people treat her, she tells the narrator the story of Lekanida Petrovna, a beautiful and sensitive woman who, having left her provincial husband, came to the capital hoping to find her happiness here, and who has been forced into prostitution by none other than Domna Platonovna herself.