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 ...

Half a million soldiers are fighting a historic battle at Fort Meade this holiday weekend. The troops are strictly 19th-century cavalry and artillery men from France and Russia, but their commanders ...

The Battle of Borodino has been brought to life in London. From Sept. 4 to 14, 2012, Rossotrudnichestvo’s Kensington office is housing a special Borodino exhibition as part of the bicentenary ...

In September 1812, France's Napoleon Bonaparte faced Russian Imperial General Mikhail Kutuzov at the Battle of Borodino. After 200 years, through the works of artists such as Leo Tolstoy (as well as ...

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 ...

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 ...

Before he stood in the courtyard of the Kremlin, watching Moscow and his hopes go up in flames, Napoleon Bonaparte had lost three-quarters of his Army in the weary march from the Russian border and in ...

BORODINO, RussiaBORODINO, Russia — Two hundred years after the key battle of the French-Russian war, thousands of enthusiasts are reenacting the clash. The Battle of Borodino, in which Napoleon ...