General Bennigsen and his notes on the Patriotic War of 1812
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The reason for writing this work served as identified in the study of the historical literature of the contradictions in the assessment of the individual general L.L. Bennigsen and his activities in command posts of the Russian Imperial Army during the Napoleonic Wars of the beginning of the XIX century. The unsuccessful participation of the Russian army in the wars against Napoleonic France in the first decade of the 19th century caused a negative reaction in Russian society and the search for the culprits of these failures. A convenient figure for such accusations was General Bennigsen, a citizen of the Elector of Hannover in the Russian service. However, the general himself, with his military service, as well as setting out his vision of the campaigns against Napoleon in his memoirs, consistently and persistently proved his allegiance to the oath, high military professionalism and training. In the subsequent official historical interpretation of the events of the Napoleonic Wars, especially the Patriotic War of 1812, General Bennigsen was assigned the role of an intriguer and a swindler, who, by his actions, interfered with the successful field leadership of the Russian army by Field Marshal M.I. Kutuzov. But the analysis of the campaign of the campaign of 1812, the battles in which General L.L. Bennigsen and his memoirs showed that this is far from the case. Therefore, when no longer relevant power and ideological imperatives that influence the public opinion, etc., and as time went to reconsider the assessment of the personality of General Bennigsen and his contribution to the victory of Russia over Napoleonic France. This will allow us to approach objective truth in the study of historical processes at the beginning of the 19th century. Further study of the activities of the military leaders and staffs of the Russian army by expanding the source base of historical research, including archival documents and memoirs of participants in the Napoleonic wars in European countries, will bring these studies to a new level of historical knowledge.

Zheltoborodov A.N., (2020), GENERAL BENNIGSEN AND HIS NOTES ON THE PATRIOTIC WAR OF 1812. History and Modern Perspectives, 2 => 97-102.

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historical figure, military leader, Napoleonic wars, Russian imperial army, Patriotic war of 1812.