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Vasilisa Vasilyevna
When the Tsar became hellbent on nailing down her gender, this clever gender-nonconforming heroine kept him guessing to the end.
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Jewish businesswoman who saved thousands of Jews from the Inquisition by smuggling them out of the country.
Marjana
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Black Agnes
When the English laid siege to her castle home, this Scottish woman bedeviled them until they gave up.
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When her deadbeat brothers demanded the impossible, this South African princess carried through, and slayed a dragon.