“All the peaks were small for you / And the staleest bread was soft, / Oh, young generals / Of your destinies!” – Marina Tsvetaeva wrote about them. Unheard of young by today's standards, incredibly talented, brave and selfless, the Russian generals of 1812 covered themselves with immortal glory on the battlefields: “Three hundred won - three! / Only the dead did not rise from the ground. / You were children and heroes, / You could do anything!” Napoleon's 600,000-strong Grand Army was defeated not only by the strategic genius of Kutuzov and the unshakable firmness of Emperor Alexander, but also by a “constellation” of brilliant Russian military leaders who surpassed the vaunted French marshals in all respects. Bagration and Barclay de Tolly, Raevsky and Dokhturov, Konovnitsyn and Miloradovich, Wittgenstein and Vorontsov, Paskevich and Golitsyn - this book pays tribute to the best Russian generals of the First Patriotic War, who defeated all of Europe, broke the back of the “invincible” Corsican and took Paris!