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A full-life portrait of the man Tolstoy immortalized, Stalin lionized, and Russian history has manipulated and mythologized beyond recognition.

Every Russian knows him purely by his patronym.

He was the general who triumphed over Napoleon’s Grande Armée during the Patriotic War of 1812, not merely restoring national pride but securing national identity. Many Russians consider Field Marshal Mikhail Illarionovich Golenischev-Kutuzov the greatest figure of the 19th century, ahead of Pushkin, Tchaikovsky, even Tolstoy himself.

A full-life portrait of the man Tolstoy immortalized, Stalin lionized, and Russian history has manipulated and mythologized beyond recognition.

A full-life portrait of the man Tolstoy immortalized, Stalin lionized, and Russian history has manipulated and mythologized beyond recognition.

RM J5XJ77–Prince Mikhail Illarionovich Golenishchev-Kutuzov, – Field Marshal of the Russian Empire.

Mikhail Kutuzov was a Russian army commander who repelled Napoleon's invasion of Russia ().

Marshal Mikhail Ilarionovich Kutuzov (), who, having received it just as he was harassing Napoleon's re- treat in a running fight.

War and Peace is a literary work by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy.

Immediately after his death in 1813, Kutuzov’s remains were hurried into the pantheon of heroes. Statues of him rose up across the Russian empire and later the Soviet Union. Over the course of decades and centuries he hardened into legend.

As award-winning author Alexander Mikaberidze shows in this fascinating, often startling, and wholly humanizing new biography, Kutuzov’s stor