News that struck some like a bolt from the blue and for others was a long-awaited decision: on October 30, 2025, the bronze figure of Field Marshal Michael Barclay de Tolly was dismantled from the ...

The years from 1812 to 1821 mark the dramatic decline and eventual fall of Napoleon Bonaparte’s empire. This video explores ...

Napoleon Bonaparte transformed Europe through a series of bold military campaigns and strategic conquests that expanded the ...

This new musical makes a case both for its own mainstream success and for its heroine as an under-appreciated icon.

My very first impression of the Moskino Cinema Park is delight at the fact that it is now practical to build sets in one place that can be used by all filmmakers. There is a sense that something is ...

French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte invaded the Russian Empire in 1812 in a disastrous six-month military campaign that ended in Russian victory. Macron hit back at Putin after a summit in Brussels ...

Charles Joseph Minard’s name is synonymous with an outstanding 1869 graphic depicting the horrific loss of life that Napoleon’s army suffered in 1812 and 1813, during its invasion of Russia ...

Hulton Archive / Getty Images Napoleon was suspicious of the quiet. According to Philippe-Paul de Ségur, a general who later wrote a history of the 1812 invasion, the emperor had been incredulous ...

Napoleon's 1812 invasion of Russia made rapid progress initially and captured Moscow. But Russian tactics forced his Grande Armee into a long retreat and hundreds of thousands of his men died as a ...

The invasion of Russia began in June 1812 and lasted six months. The French army started to invade Russia at several different points. The army that gathered with Napoleon was a force of roughly ...