Napoleon invaded Russia with the largest army Europe had ever seen, composed of troops from France as well as Poland, Germany ...

searching in vain for the decisive blow that would force Emperor Alexander to negotiate peace. Even after winning a costly victory at Borodino and occupying Moscow, Napoleon's invitation to ...

With these words, Tsar Alexander I appealed to the Russian ... But missing from Western scholarship on the Napoleonic Wars is a full-fledged account of how Russia came to smash Napoleon.

Across Russia, celebrations have commenced honoring the 200th anniversary of Tsar Alexander I's defeat of France's Napoleon Bonaparte. Napoleon's Blog contextualized the Russian Campaign amid the ...

In 1811, Tsar Alexander I, supposedly allied with Napoleon ... You know it’s easy to start a war but it’s very difficult to finish one." On June 24, 1812, ignoring the advice of his closest ...

In 1801, Russian Emperor Paul I was assassinated after just ... Under Catherine the Great’s marshals Grigory Potemkin and Alexander Suvorov in the 18 th century, a simpler form of dress had ...

Seventy thousand Russian soldiers, commanded by the Tsar Alexander I himself ... The Tsar called a council of war, and argued for an immediate attack. Only Russian General Mikhail Kutuzov objected.

Rey insists that Alexander had already begun to draw up an alternative to the Napoleonic imperial model ... In his own mind, the emperor always knew best. When war finally returned with the French ...

To mark the upcoming centenary of the Russian Revolution in October 2017, Radio 4 will chronicle Russian leaders in Tsar – 11 plays across three seasons. The series kicked off in September 2016 ...