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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