Biography of Elena Choba

Author: Date: The genealogy of Elena Choba is unknown. The old people only remembered that she got into the Kuban as a child. When the girl’s mother died, an orphan was sheltered by the prosperous Cossack of the village of Rogovskaya Ivan Samsonovich Zyuzka. Elena grew modest and hardworking, girlish hands deftly coped with any work, knew how to cook, and spin, and smear the hut, and whiten.

Since childhood, she loved horses - at seven years old without a saddle, clinging to the horse mane, rushed to the Cossacks to the river. When she grew up, the sedate Cossacks were only amazed, looking at the removal of the Divchin of the most desperate lads at stanic leaps, how dashingly it takes prizes at the vine’s trigger, deftly removing it with a saber, thereby a blade that the stanic ataman handed her for the first teddy jump.

Some of the old people grumbled in a blue mustache: they say, for a prize for a girl, she would have a spinning wheel. I married a Cossack Mikhail Chobu. At the beginning of the First World War, Mikhail died. At her own expense, the Cossack uniforms celebrated and turned to a village society with a request to send her to the front to fight instead of the deceased spouse. After the village elders supported Elena's petition to send to the front, she had a meeting with the head of the Kuban region.

Elena Elena came to an appointment with Lieutenant General Mikhail Pavlovich Babych with short-cut hair, in gray cloth Circassian and papaha. After listening to the petitioner, the chieftain gave permission to be sent to the army and in the its means of usual the Cossack Mikhail wished to be named with this name. And a few days later, the train rushed Elena Mikhail to the front.

The magazine “The Kuban Cossack Bulletin” told about how the Rogovsk woman fought: “In the heat of fire, under the undisguised roar of guns, under the continuous rain of machine -gun and rifle bullets, according to comrades, our Mikhailo did his job without fear. Moving from the front to the front, from the rear to advanced positions, from the army to the army Mikhailo boldly and cheerfully looked into the eyes of his enemy, with whom he often had to be at the distance of a bayonet blow.

Snow storms, fierce winter of the Carpathian mountains, endless transitions, night attacks and constant battles seemed to be its element. Elena-Mikhailo Choba, avoiding glory, stood out with her dashing. Looking at the young, unstable and unbridled figure of their brave associate, his comrades went tirelessly at the enemies forward after Mikhail, not at all suspecting that under the Cossack Cossack, the Rog Cossack Elena Choba lies.

In the year, Elena was awarded three medals and St. George crosses of the 3rd and 4th degree. The following year she was seriously injured, and her secret was revealed in the hospital. In November, with fellow soldier Fedor Ryabchun, she returned to her native village. Russian magazines and newspapers wrote a lot about the young heroine. In the year, Elena Choba joined the ranks of the White Army.

In her native village, she was last seen in a year on a prayer service in a temple in Circassian with combat awards in a year. For many years it was believed that Elena fell in battle, but recently historians discovered a photograph of the theatrical group "Kuban Dzhigits", made in the years in the United States. A young Cossack, very similar to Elena, sits on her next to Fedor Ryabchun.

It turned out that back in the beginning of the 10s, the news from Elena from Bulgaria came to the village of Rogovskaya.