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Mikhail Kutuzov was born in Saint Petersburg on 16 September 1745. [3] His father, Lieutenant-General Illarion Matveevich Kutuzov (1717—1784), had served for 30 years with the Corps of Engineers, had seen action against the Turks and served under Peter the Great.
Sep 12, 2024 · Mikhail Kutuzov was a Russian army commander who repelled Napoleon’s invasion of Russia (1812). The son of a lieutenant general who had served in Peter the Great’s army, Kutuzov attended the military engineering school at age 12 and entered the Russian army as a corporal when he was only 14.
Mikhail Kutuzov (Russian: Михаил Кутузов) is a Project 68bis light cruiser (designated the Sverdlov class by NATO) of the Soviet and later the Russian Navy's Black Sea Fleet.
Sep 1, 2022 · by Alexander Mikaberidze. This book provides a fresh biography of Kutuzov which separates historical research from later political propaganda. It examines his personal life and military accomplishments, relying on a wide range of primary and secondary sources as well as Russian archival material. Learn More.
This text is the first modern English-language biography of Mikhail Golenischev-Kutuzov, the famed Russian field marshal and central character of Leo Tolstoy’s epic War and Peace.
General Mikhail Kutuzov is a celebrated military leader with many decades’ experience. He has been chosen by the Tsar to lead Russia’s army against Napoleon. Kutuzov is wise and battle...
May 23, 2018 · The Russian field marshal Mikhail Ilarionovich Kutuzov (1745-1813) commanded the forces that compelled Napoleon to retreat from Russia. From his birth on Sept. 5, 1745, in St. Petersburg , Mikhail Kutuzov, the son of a general, was understood to be destined for a military career.
May 29, 2023 · Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov is best known in the West as the general who led imperial Russian forces to victory over Napoleon during his 1812 invasion of Russia. In Russian culture, Kutuzov became – almost immediately after his death in 1813 – a mythic figure, part of the national pantheon of heroes.
Aug 18, 2022 · This text is the first modern English-language biography of Mikhail Golenischev-Kutuzov, the famed Russian field marshal and central character of Leo Tolstoy’s epic War and Peace.
Prince Mikhail Illarionovich Golenishchev-Kutuzov-Smolensky was a Field Marshal of the Russian Empire. He served as a military officer and a diplomat under the reign of three Romanov monarchs: Empress Catherine II, and Emperors Paul I and Alexander I. Kutuzov was shot in the head twice while fighting the Turks and survived the serious injuries ...
