One of the most famous military leaders in Russian history, Lieutenant General Nikolai Nikolaevich Raevsky (1771–1829) participated in the wars with Turkey and Sweden, in the Russian-French wars of 1806–1807, and in the foreign campaigns of the Russian army of 1813–1814 .But the “finest hour” of his life was the famous “defense of the Raevsky battery” on the Kurganaya heights during the Battle of Borodino on August 26, 1812. A new novel by the modern writer A. Korolchenko tells about one of the most famous military leaders in Russian history - Lieutenant General Nikolai Nikolaevich Raevsky .