Название: Kutuzov: A Life in War and Peace
Автор: Alexander Mikaberidze
Издательство: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197546730
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 816
Размер: 27,7 МБ
Язык: Английский
A full-life portrait of the man Tolstoy immortalized, Stalin lionized, and Russian history has manipulated and mythologized beyond recognition. Every Russian knows him purely by his patronym. He was the general who triumphed over Napoleon's Grande Armée during the Patriotic War of 1812, not merely restoring national pride but securing national identity. Many Russians consider Field Marshal Mikhail Illarionovich Golenischev-Kutuzov the greatest figure of the 19th century, ahead of Pushkin, Tchaikovsky, even Tolstoy himself. Immediately after his death in 1813, Kutuzov's remains were hurried into the pantheon of heroes.