Two hundred years ago this week, Napoleon Bonaparte fought a battle in Russia that may have begun his undoing. He led his Grand Army against the Imperial Russian Army near a village called Borodino, ...

It was one of the bloodiest conflicts of the Napoleonic Wars. The Battle of Borodino – known to the French as the Battle of Moscow – was one of the bloodiest of the Napoleonic Wars, exceeding even ...

In September 1812, France's Napoleon Bonaparte faced Russian Imperial General Mikhail Kutuzov at the Battle of Borodino. After 200 years, through the works of artists such as Leo Tolstoy (as well as ...

At the beginning of the 20th century, the Russian chemist and photographer Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky developed a complex process for vivid, detailed color photography (see box text below). His vision of ...

Half a million soldiers are fighting a historic battle at Fort Meade this holiday weekend. The troops are strictly 19th-century cavalry and artillery men from France and Russia, but their commanders ...

BORODINO, Moscow region, September 2 (Itar-Tass) —— President Vladimir Putin took part in celebrations of the 200th anniversary of the Borodino Battle and awarded the “City of Military Glory” titles ...

On September 2, thousands of French and Russian actors re-created the 200-year-old Battle of Borodino, which led to the defeat of Napoleon's forces and a rise in Russian patriotism. Nearly 100,000 ...

The Battle of Borodino ranks with Stalingrad as the ultimate symbol of Russian defiance in the face of foreign aggression. President Vladimir Putin on Sunday used the 200th anniversary as an ...

He visited the Borodino Battle Museum founded in 1839 on the orders of Emperor Alexander II BORODINO, Moscow region, September 2 (Itar-Tass) —— President Vladimir Putin took part in celebrations of ...