Press reviews

The Russian Napoleonic web site, The 1812 Project, at http://www.museum.ru/museum/1812/English/index.html, has put online its section entitled 'Memorial'. At present there are two articles (with others promised), one on the Vedenskoe cemetery in Moscow and another on a visit this year to the site of the Battle of Borodino. The link is http://www.museum.ru/museum/1812/English/memorial/contents.html. The site also […]

A short series of Napoleonic articles, written by respected university lecturers and published in History Today http://www.historytoday.com/index.cfm?USER__UID=cCE7D8EB709C44D47AD77E29014F9578E_179210031&JS__enabled=yes, a British, monthly, history magazine. Entitled 'Napoleon's impact on Europe', the series runs as follows:'Napoleon's Impact on International Relations' by Jeremy BlackHistory Today, vol. 48 (2) February 1998.'Napoleon and Kingship' by Philip MansellHistory Today, vol. 48 (3) March […]

Mark Conrad has put online a selection of translations relating to Russian military history. Of particular interest to the Napoleonic enthusiast are: Historical notes on the Orenburg Cossack host On entering military service under Alexander I Don Cossack, Opolcheni, 1812 Crimean Tartar patriotism Lt Gen. Raevskii's report of the Battle of Borodino, and Markov's Horse […]

Jean-Paul Laurens, official painter of IIIrd RepublicLaurens, very much the official painter to the IIIrd Republic, took certain episodes from the history of the First and Second Empires so as to defend and highlight republican values.L'Histoire, n° 214, octobre 1997, Pierre Vaisse, p.13-15Some periods in the life of the Prince impérial His childhood, his place […]