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Russian commanders of the Napoleonic Wars

  • Alexander I of RussiaAt 10:45 on the 23rd of December 1777, a baby named Alexander Pavlovich drew his first breath inside the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg.
  • Mikhail KutuzovMikhail Kutuzov was born in Saint Petersburg on the 16th of September 1745. His father served for thirty years with the Corps of Engineers and saw action…
  • Michael Andreas Barclay de TollyMichael Andreas Barclay de Tolly entered the world in 1761 within the Polish, Lithuanian Commonwealth. His family belonged to a Baltic German lineage that…