A NAPOLEON-obsessed Russian professor who beheaded his student lover has begged to “atone in blood” for his crime by fighting ...

Napoleon now found himself 500 miles from friendly territory, outnumbered, poorly supplied, and with winter approaching. What ...

Napoleon’s edict barring trade with Great Britain was ruining the Russian economy. Tensions quickly escalated; every attempt to negotiate failed. SOKHOLOV: The Russian army starts to concentrate ...

Napoleon was in Warsaw when he was stunned by the news of a surprise Russian attack. He struck back at once, first at Eylau, just 130 miles from the Russian border, then, later in nearby Friedland.

(Napoleon’s 1812 invasion was Russia’s first ... depicted as a polar bear in a Cossack hat. A Russian soldier laughing at an Ottoman Turk. Before being pitted against each other in WWI ...

When the blaze in Moscow subsided on September 18 ... the carvings may even depict French emperor and military commander Napoleon Bonaparte being hanged Sarah Kuta Nobody knows for sure, but ...

Follow the latest on the Ukraine war. Both Moscow and Kyiv launched drone attacks overnight, with a fire reported at an oil depot in Russia; Donald Trump said "we are having very good talks" on ...

2. Stalin used War and Peace as a propaganda tool during WWII Russia’s victory over Napoleon in 1812 speaks so strongly to the Russian national psyche that when Hitler attacked the Soviet Union ...