"I had heard that she was a beautiful woman... Marusya was sitting at a table and had a cigarette in her teeth. This she-devil really was a beauty: about 30, gypsy-type with black hair and a magnificent bosom which filled out her military tunic."
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Raksha, speaking of a meeting with Nikiforova in 1918.
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Maria Nikiforova
Maria Nikiforova (or Marusya; 1885β 1919) was an anarchist partisan leader whose activities in the Ukrainian War of Independence influenced the Ukrainian revolutionary Nestor Makhno.
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