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Wednesday, September 7, 2011

NAPOLEON WINS THE BATTLE OF BORODINO, SEPTEMBER 7, 1812; LOSES THE WAR


THE BATTLE OF 
BORODINO 
September 7, 1812 


DONALD GRAMM AS MARSHAL KUTUZOV 
IN SARAH CALDWELL'S STAGING OF 
PROKOFIEV'S OPERA OF WAR AND PEACE, 
BASED ON THE NOVEL BY LEO TOLSTOY 

Kutuzov was the Russian field marhsal who opposed Napoleon Bonaparte in the Battle of Borodino, September 7, 1812, which Napoleon won, but at a cost in men and material so high that Kutuzov ultimately won the War of 1812 ("The Patriotic War") for Russia. 

For more of Gramm-as-Kutuzov, see here; for another scene from this production of War and Peace, see here; for a view of the Narva Triumphal Arch constructed to commemorate the victory over Napoleon, see here


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