Abstract: In modern philology with its inclination towards an anthropocentric paradigm active development is gained by gender approach in person studying. The choice of the real subject is caused by the attention of the philologists belonging to different areas of scientific research to a gender perspective which increased in recent years. The attention of experts is drawn first of all by research of the world picture of researcher and his hero. This topic has been researched by L.I. Savkina, E.I. Goroshko, L.O. Vasvari and others. Researchers of this study make an attempt to understand and describe the gender phenomenon of Nadezhda Andreevna Durova personality, the first Russian female officer, participant of military campaign of 1812 against Napoleon’s army calling herself “girl-cavalryman”. The main objective is to establish the reasons which drove the woman of the beginning of the XIX century with a checker bare and astride a horse to protect the Homeland from Napoleonic army and to wear men’s wear until the end of her days. Subject relevance is connected with researchers’ attempt to reveal problems of gender self-identification of the researcher-heroine being guided first of all by her memoirs “Girl-Cavalryman Notes” and also historical and cultural sources. The basis of research was formed by general scientific (analysis, synthesis, description) and philological (contextual, conceptual, comparative and retrospective) research methods. Importance of the study’s scientific results is defined by researcher’s attempt to comprehend gender self-identification of N.A. Durova as well as heroine’s through the name “girl-cavalryman”, “hussar girl” and also through the deep analysis of gender installations of Russia in the beginnings of the XIX century. On the basis of the conducted research researchers state self-identification of N.A. Durova which researchers of th study define as non-standard not stereotypic from positions of standard cultural, behavioral, gender affirmations of public institutes of XIX century Russia. Key conclusion of the study is definition of consciousness of the researcher-heroine as androgenic with the bright expressed masculine dominant, the caused gender shift in consciousness of the heroine which arose in childhood under the influence of male education and absence of maternal love.