"It's a historic moment not only for me, but for our two countries. Napoleon was one of the last people to see him alive." ...

Between 1812-1814, liberated cities across Europe from Warsaw to Paris witnessed huge Russian victory parades marking the defeat of Napoleon ... light cavalry, the hussars, whose riding style ...

In 1807, the Grodno hussar regiment was in Prussia, fighting against Napoleon alongside the Prussian army. During a card game at an inn, a Prussian officer offended Russian hussar Lt. General ...

Two hundred years ago this week, Napoleon Bonaparte fought a battle in Russia that may have begun ... artillery, grenadiers, hussars in plumed bearskin hats and heavy dragoons with gleaming ...

Britain and Russia were notably enemies during the Crimean War (1853-1856). However, the two countries briefly clashed during ...

The bodies included 120 soldiers who fought the 1812 Battle of Vyazma, wherein Russian Empire forces defeated Napoleon’s retreating army after the failed invasion of Moscow in November 1812.

Video by Reza Nourmamode In the early 19th century, the French-speaking Russian nobility admired French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, seen then as an unparalleled political and military strategist.

It stands in the main Berlin to Moscow corridor, which for over 200 years has been the battlefields of the armies of Napoleon, the Tsars of Russia, Hitler and Stalin, as well as Poles and ...

That after all was the rationale behind Nesselrode's spies assiduously reporting whether Napoleon was still eating a good breakfast. Unless fortune intervened, however, Russia's leaders from mid ...

It stands in the main Berlin to Moscow corridor, which for over 200 years has been the battlefields of the armies of Napoleon, the Tsars of Russia, Hitler and Stalin, as well as Poles and ...