In his talk Professor Alexander Mikaberidze will explore the life and times of Mikhail Kutuzov, the man Tolstoy immortalised, Stalin lionised, and Russian history has manipulated and mythologised.
Alexander Mikaberidze is Professor of History and Ruth Herring Noel Endowed Chair at Louisiana State University-Shreveport. An expert on the Napoleonic Wars, Dr. Mikaberidze has written and edited over two dozen books, including multi-volume series on the Russian eyewitness accounts of the Napoleonic Wars and a trilogy on the decisive moments of the Russian Campaign of 1812. His book, on the global impact of the Napoleonic Wars, The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History (Oxford, 2020), was internationally acclaimed and translated into half a dozen languages. His latest book is Kutuzov: A Life in War and Peace(Oxford, 2022), which earned the 2022 Distinguished Book Award from the Society for Military History.