100 Years of Women: Russian Edition!

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Across
  1. 6. Influential documentary filmmaker of works such as “Solovki Power”
  2. 11. Titular character of Tolstoy’s novel about a fallen woman
  3. 13. The only Russian empress to be called "Вели́кая," or "Great"
  4. 15. This youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II was long thought to have survived the Bolshevik Revolution
  5. 16. Journalist investigating human rights violations who was shot in her Moscow apartment in 2007
  6. 17. This poetess, author of poems like “Мне нравится” hanged herself in 1941
Down
  1. 1. First woman in space in 1963
  2. 2. The first woman appointed as a professor of Mathematics
  3. 3. The most prolific female sniper ever
  4. 4. This figure skater was the youngest Russian athlete to win Olympic gold
  5. 5. The titular heroine of Bulgakov’s "The Master and ____"
  6. 7. Stalin’s favorite actress
  7. 8. This woman disguised herself as a man to fight in the Napoleonic Wars
  8. 9. In 1917 Russia created the first all-female fighting battalion, called "The 1st Russian Women’s Battalion of ____"
  9. 10. Black ___: This Marvel heroine has no powers, but was trained by the KGB
  10. 12. Marion ___, heroine of the 1936 film “Circus”
  11. 14. The most extravagant of Russia’s empresses, she never wore the same dress twice