Miss Peasant

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Miss Peasant ({{langx|ru|Барышня-крестьянка}}, literally "The Young Lady-Peasant") was a 1916 Russian silent full-length feature film under the joint direction of Olga Preobrazhenskaya with actor, screenwriter and director Vladimir Gardin. It was based on the novel with the same (Russian) name by Pushkin from his cycle The Belkin Tales.{{Cite book |last1=Horton |first1=Andrew |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CugSEAAAQBAJ&dq=Olga+Preobrazhenskaya+Director&pg=PA103 |title=The Zero Hour: Glasnost and Soviet Cinema in Transition |last2=Brashinsky |first2=Michael |date=2021-03-09 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=978-0-691-22786-3 |pages=103, 258 |language=en}}{{Cite book |last1=Foster |first1=Gwendolyn Audrey |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PrYUAQAAIAAJ&q=Olga+Preobrazhenskaya+Director |title=Women Filmmakers & Their Films |last2=Jacobs |first2=Katrien |last3=Unterburger |first3=Amy L. |date=1998 |publisher=St. James Press |isbn=978-1-55862-357-6 |pages=IX, 338 |language=en}} It is a lost film. ( Pushkin's novel was also translated as The Squire's Daughter and Mistress into Maid.)

The film was the first work of Olga Preobrazhenskaya as a director. As she put it, "the film came out, it was praised, but since it was the first production of a woman director, it was treated with distrust, and on the posters and reviews my name was often written with a male ending or attributed to the production of other directors."{{cite web|url=https://www.forbes.ru/forbes-woman/437767-chelovek-s-kinoapparatom-5-zhenshchin-rezhisserov-stoyavshih-u-istokov|work=Forbes|title=Человек с киноаппаратом: 5 женщин-режиссеров, стоявших у истоков кинематографа|trans-title=5 women directors who stood at the dawn of cinematography|author=Yulia Shamporova|date=20 August 2021 }}