For my courageous wife, Mikiko, and in memory of the regiments of the Imperial Russian Army who fought, suffered and triumphed in the great war of 1812–14
1 Introduction
2 Russia as a Great Power
3 The Russo-French Alliance
4 Preparing for War
5 The Retreat
6 Borodino and the Fall of Moscow
7 The Home Front in 1812
8 The Advance from Moscow
9 1813: The Spring Campaign
10 Rebuilding the Army
11 Europe’s Fate in the Balance
12 The Battle of Leipzig
13 The Invasion of France
14 The Fall of Napoleon
15 Conclusion
Alexander I
Mikhail Barclay de Tolly
Mikhail Kutuzov
Levin von Bennigsen
Peter von Wittgenstein
Petr Rumiantsev
Karl von Nesselrode
Aleksandr Chernyshev
Christoph von Lieven
Mikhail Speransky
Aleksei Arakcheev
Dmitrii Gurev
Fedor Rostopchin
Petr Bagration
Mikhail Miloradovich
Matvei Platov
Eugen of Wurttemberg
Petr Volkonsky
Aleksei Ermolov
Karl von Toll
Johann von Diebitsch
Aleksandre de Langeron
Fabian von der Osten-Sacken
Ilarion Vasilchikov
Johann von Lieven
Aleksei Gorchakov
Dmitrii Lobanov-Rostovsky
Georg Kankrin
Andrei Kologrivov
Private: Preobrazhensky Guards Regiment
Private: Finland Guards Regiment
Private: Riazan Infantry Regiment
Lieutenant: field artillery of the line – heavy battery
Private: Ekaterinoslav Cuirassier Regiment
Lieutenant: Guards Dragoon Regiment
Private: Sumi Hussar Regiment
Private: Lithuania Lancer Regiment
Napoleon awards the Legion d’honneur to Private Lazarev at Tilsit
Borodino: the Raevsky Redoubt after the battle
Spring 1813: the Cossacks in Hamburg
Fere-Champenoise: the Cossack Life Guard Regiment attacks the French infantry
George Dawe painting, Bridgeman Art Library/Getty Images
Christoph von Lieven: British Library
Aleksei Arakcheev: British Library
Alexandre de Langeron and Fabian von der Osten-Sacken: British Library
Andrei Kologrivov: British Library
Albrecht Adam sketch: AKG Images
