New Russian museum to mark bicentennial of Napoleon's defeat (karma: 3)en>frfr>en By JeanValette Comments: 42582, member since Sat Mar 15, 2003
On Sat Mar 20, 2010 12:05 AM
New Russian museum to mark bicentennial of Napoleon's defeat
Russia will spend nearly 60 million euros to build a new museum celebrating the 200th anniversary of Russia's 1812 victory over French emperor Napoleon, vice premier Alexander Joukov said Wednesday.
"I hope that it will be a collection ... at the level of the best museums in the world," Interfax news agency quoted him as saying.
Some 2.38 billion rubles (59 million euros, 81 million dollars) were to be spent on the museum by 2012.
Joukov said that the museum would include exhibits of many items from the era that are currently stocked in the warehouses of the History Museum on Moscow's Red Square.
Napoleon invaded Russia in June 1812 and although his forces entered Moscow in September Tsar Alexander I did not surrender.
In October, Napoleon beat a catastrophic retreat from Russia as the Tsar's troops and the Russian winter ground down his army until it was finally defeated in November crossing the Berezina river in what is now Belarus.
re: New Russian museum to mark bicentennial of Napoleon's defeat (karma: 4)en>frfr>en By EuropeIsOurs Comments: 389, member since Wed Jul 15, 2009
On Sat Mar 20, 2010 04:29 AM
Defeat, defeat, I don't really think it's the word...
We won Borodino, Russians ran away.
Russian tactics was effective but ridiculous: ran away, burn your own towns, and wait the winter...
But they are right to open those kind of museum.
Our museums are the museums of immigration, the museum of moroccan culture, the museum of Algerian war...
re: New Russian museum to mark bicentennial of Napoleon's defeat (karma: 1)en>frfr>en By Trever Comments: 6460, member since Wed Nov 09, 2005
On Sun Mar 21, 2010 12:03 AM
Edited by Trever (78442) on 2010-03-21 00:06:23
Here is a version of the 1812 Overture that you probably haven't heard. The 1812 Overture by Tchaikowski is the musical celebration of the French being kicked out of Russia. This is the first half, followed by the second. It really is the most beautiful choral music I'm aware of. Yes, it actually was a hymn as well as an overture. Enjoy.
re: New Russian museum to mark bicentennial of Napoleon's defeat (karma: 1)en>frfr>en By Nappybonesapart Comments: 12319, member since Fri Aug 27, 2004
On Mon Mar 22, 2010 09:17 AM
eh Crimea War
includes Pacific front Minor naval skirmishes also occurred in the Far East, where a strong British and French Allied squadron (including HMS Pique under Rear Admiral David Price and Contre-admiral Febrier-Despointes besieged a smaller Russian force under Rear Admiral Yevfimy Putyatin at Petropavlovsk on the Kamchatka Peninsula.
White Sea theatre
In autumn 1854 a squadron of three British warships led by HMS Miranda left the Baltic for the White Sea, where they shelled Kola (which was utterly destroyed) and the Solovki.
stopping baltic traders
Russia was dependent on imports for both the domestic economy and the supply of her military forces and the blockade seriously undermined the Russian economy. Raiding by allied British and French fleets destroyed forts on the Finnish coast including Bomarsund on the Åland Islands and Fort Slava.
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