Elena Kurakin

      Elena Kurakin first appeared in the "Tsar Wars" arc of Nikolai Dante.
The Reborn Russian Empire being torn apart by the war between the Czar and the
Romanov family and Dante, the black sheep bastard son of Dimitri Romanov,
was sent to the ruined city of Sebastopol.  It was the headquarters of his new
command.  A penal battalion of convicted killers and hardened criminals who
had all been facing execution before being offered a chance to kill for the
Romanovs instead.  Unfortunately the experiment hadn't worked out and Elena
had been the only one to stand with the commanding officer when the other
troops mutinied.  So when Dante arrived in Prog 1185 (March 22 2000) Elena was
hanging out with her late commander.  Script by Robbie Morrison, art by John
Burns.




     When Elena backed him up after Dante took care of the Grozny Gang he
promoted her to sergeant and she remained the only one of his troops he
could trust at his back.  Elena was unique in that she was career military
rather than a lifelong criminal.  She had been arrested for killing her
commanding officer after he showed cowardice in battle and became unworthy to
command her.  A habit she continued in Prog 1204 when she killed General Kluge
after he refused to follow the orders Dante had sent via her to advance in
support of Dante's troops and tried to withdraw.  Elena was pardoned for
beheading Kluge (Dimitri said he'd have done the same thing) but with Dante
apparently dead there was no one to veify that he had sent her back from the
front as a courier.  Which made her a deserter and the Romanovs considered
that a capital crime.



Why shoot a woman being hanged?





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