In this thesis, I examine the portrayal of Soviet women-soldiers in Boris Vasil′ev’s novella And the Dawns Here are Quiet… (1969). I consider the historical significance of female involvement in World War II and compare Vasil′ev’s fictional work to the recollections of real women-soldiers collected by Svetlana Alexievich in The Unwomanly Face of War (1985). I argue that, despite Vasil′ev’s personal military background and his belonging to the “lieutenant prose” school known for its historically accurate descriptions of the front, And the Dawns Here are Quiet… often provide a romanticized version of female war experiences. As Vasil′ev’s work is largely missing from Western scholarly literature, I address this academic lacuna and provide a better understanding of Vasil′ev’s significance in Soviet Russian war literature.