A WOMAN'S GREAT JOURNEY.

Cromwell Argus, Volume XLIII, Issue 2287, 4 March 1912, Page 7

A WOMAN'S GREAT JOURNEY.

Mme. Kud'asheff, a Cossack. wjjman, and widow of a Cossack officer, has just reached Moscow after riding 6,666 miles, en route from Harbin to St. Petersburg. The object iof her feat is to prove the endurance of which Russian women, and Cossacks in particular, are capable. She is 36 years of age, tall and spare, and has her hair cut short. She wears a Cossack tunic, corduroy breeches, high top-boots, and a large Cossack fur cap. Her mount Is an eight-year-old thoroughbred Mongolian pony, and has carried his mistress splendidly without undergoing any special training for the journey. Mme. Kudasheff started from Harbin in the middle of May last year. Under average conditions her pony covered twelve miles an hour trotting and five miles ambling. She only travelled in the daytime. The greatest distance traversed by her in a single day was 53 miles, and the shortest ten miles. She took with her a cavalryman's pack, containing a change of clothes and linen,, a brush and a currycomb, and she also carried a dagger and a revolver. Despite the bitter cold of Siberia, she never wore gloves or bashlik (woollen hood), and only once had her hands and face frost bitten.