Members of historic clubs wearing 1812-era uniforms take part in a staged battle re-enactment to mark the 200th anniversary of the battle of Borodino, in Borodino, about 110 km (70 miles) west of ...

In 1812 Napoleon invaded Russia with the largest army Europe had ever seen. As it advanced, the Russian army retreated, and by September Napoleon's army had marched 470 miles into the depths of Russia ...

This year, Russia marks the 200th anniversary of the Patriotic War of 1812, which played an important role in the development of Russia as a world power. Russia's war against Napoleon is considered ...

Thousands of people in full period costume have recreated a battle that saw the grand army of Napoleon face off against the army of Russia's tsar in the largest clash of the Napoleonic wars. More than ...

BORODINO, Russia (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin made a rousing call for unity among Russia's diverse ethnic and religious groups on Sunday as he led commemorations of a battle 200 years ago that ...

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 ...

On the eve of the battle of Borodino, the clash in 1812 that would seal the fate of Napoleon's doomed invasion, Russian generals and soldiers prayed in front of the Smolensk Icon of the Virgin Mary.

Borodino is a name often heard in Moscow. It is a village about 70 miles westward, where Marshal Kutusov’s Russian army made a last-ditch stand against Napoleon in 1812, and where in World War II a ...

President Vladimir Putin used the 200th anniversary of one of the bloodiest battles of the Napoleonic Wars to call for unity and patriotism, as thousands of actors recreated the Battle of Borodino. Mr ...