The fate of this woman was filled with bright events. Nina Burova, starting her career as a school teacher, became a Cossack ataman and a doctor of psychology at the Sorbonne. She was born on February 11, 1894, into the family of a colonel. From childhood, her father taught her horseback riding and the use of a sabre, but Nina was more interested in science. After graduating from gymnasium, she completed her education at the Saint Petersburg Mariinsky Institute, receiving a teacher's diploma. After the revolution, Nina fled with her husband to the whites and ended up in Ekaterinodar, where her partisan activities began.

The Cossacks and whites, defeated in battles, often asked her what to do next. At first, she simply comforted them, but soon took the initiative and organized a partisan detachment of 200 people. She chose the best horse from the local circus and taught the fighters the tactics of guerrilla warfare from memory, which she had studied in Petersburg thanks to her military husband.

With this detachment, Burova made bold raids on the reds and defended villages. She urged her Cossacks to treat others humanely: forbidding them to finish off the wounded, execute prisoners, and torture them. All captured supplies were shared equally and given to those in need. However, the successes of the detachment lasted only 11 months. In the last battle, Nina was thrown from her horse, and machine-gun fire wounded her in the chest. The Cossacks tried to save her, but the heavy fire prevented them from approaching, and the reinforcements of the reds scattered the detachment.

Nina was captured, tortured, and sentenced to execution, but then her death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. She served her sentence in Solovki, from where she miraculously escaped. For a long time, she wandered through Europe and eventually settled in France, where she graduated from the Sorbonne at an older age. Later, she emigrated to the USA and became famous as an artist. Nina Burova died in 1998 at the age of 104.