It dates from the Napoleonic era and would ... like these would have made the prisoners of war some money, as they would have sold them to British military officers. This example, however, was ...

carved from stone in the Schollenen Gorge - a monument to Russian soldiers who perished in the wars against Napoleon Bonaparte in 1799. Cadets from the Moscow Military Music College performed the ...

This is the story of the Decembrists, a group of young Russian aristocrats and army officers, including decorated veterans of the Napoleonic Wars, who returned home after the conflict hoping Russia ...

his attempted encirclement of General Bennigsen's Russian army near the East Prussian town of Eylau led, instead, to one of the most notorious battles of the Napoleonic Wars, fought in terrible ...