A THOUGHT FOR INVADERS

FROM BONDARCHUK'S 

FILM OF TOLSTOY'S 

WAR & PEACE 

А и то сказать, кто же их к нам звал? 
But after all is said and done 
who asked them to come here? 

BORIS ZAKHAVA 
as 
Field Marshal MIKHAIL KUTUZOV 
reflecting on the misery and the common humanity of 
Napoleon's army retreating from Russia, but -- ! 

HAPPY NEW YEAR! & WAR & PEACE AGAIN

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

"WAR & PEACE"

SARAH CALDWELL'S STAGING OF

SERGEI PROKOFIEV'S OPERA

FROM LEO TOLSTOY'S NOVEL

Here's hoping for more peace and less war in 2012, two hundred years after both Wars of 1812 -- the European one which is the subject of Tolstoy's "WAR & PEACE" and the American (or Euro-American) one --

A CANDLELIGHT VIGIL FROM ANOTHER TIME OF WAR (VIETNAM/IRAQ)

IRAQ IS OVER

OFFICIALLY

FOR THE AMERICANS

FOR THE AMERICAN MILITARY

A CANDLELIGHT VIGIL FROM

ANOTHER TIME OF WAR

ANOTHER "LONG WAR"

VIETNAM

LEO TOLSTOY b. September 9, 1828

LEO TOLSTOY 

September 9, 1828-November 20, 1910 

ONE OF THE "PEACE" SCENES 

FROM LEO TOLSTOY'S 

"WAR & PEACE" 

Sergei Prokofiev's Opera 

Staged by Sarah Caldwell 

The lengthy New York Times obituary for Count Tolstoy can be found here. 

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. 

WAR & PEACE II: SARAH CALDWELL'S & SERGEI PROKOFIEV'S & LEO TOLSTOY'S

WAR & PEACE  

II 

SARAH CALDWELL'S PRODUCTION 

OF PROKOFIEV'S OPERA 

WAR AND PEACE 

Boston 1974 

For a photograph of 

Donald Gramm as Marshal Kutuzov, 

see here 

MARSHAL KUTUZOV & WAR AND PEACE: THE 500TH POST

THE FIVE HUNDREDTH POST 

DONALD GRAMM 

as 

MARSHAL MIKHAIL KUTUZOV 

in 

SARAH CALDWELL'S 

production of 

SERGEI PROKOFIEV's 

opera 

"WAR AND PEACE" 

based on 

LEO TOLSTOY'S 

novel of the same name 

Photographed for TIME Magazine 

Another of Caldwell's singers, 

PLACIDO DOMINGO, here 

For a photograph of the production overall, 

see here