"YOUR PHOTOGRAPHS ARE AS DAZZLING AS YOUR SUBJECTS"

Showing posts with label Napoleon. Show all posts
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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. 


Wednesday, May 12, 2010

THE NARVA TRIUMPHAL ARCH & THE WAR OF 1812: RUSSIA'S OTHER "PATRIOTIC WAR"


THE WAR OF 1812
RUSSIA'S OTHER
"PATRIOTIC WAR" --
AGAINST NAPOLEON

THE NARVA TRIUMPHAL ARCH
ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA

The sixty-fifth anniversary of victory in the European
theater in World War II (the "Great Patriotic War")
has just been celebrated in Moscow.

The Narva Triumphal Arch (above) in St. Petersburg,
Russia, was erected to celebrate the Russian victory in
the "Patriotic War" of 1812 over the invading forces of Napoleon.

The original version of the arch was erected in time
to welcome the Russian troops returning from France
in the summer of 1814 (more information here).