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In the bicentenary year of the 1812 Russian campaign, the limited use and availability of Russian sources in western historiographical trends appear all the more startling. Despite more than 350 Russian-language memoirs and documents in existence, history of the Napoleonic period - particularly 1812 - remains dominated by a relatively small selection of sources. Alexander Mikaberidze, assistant professor of European history at Louisiana State University, spoke to napoleon.org about his new Russian Voices of the Napoleonic Wars series, which offers English-language translations of Russian memoirs. (March 2012) |