Word: kutuzov
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attempt in fiction to present General Washington from the inside out, as a suffering and growing human being. Wholly successful or not, Author Fast's portrait is persuasive, moving, alive and bold. Fast's Washington has touches of Lincoln about him, possibly even a trace of General Kutuzov in Tolstoy's War and Peace. But in his own right he is a great human character...
...devoid of conscience and honor, people with a morale of beasts, have the impudence to call for the destruction of the great Russian nation, the nation of Plekhanov, of Lenin, of Belinsky and Chernyshevsky, Pushkin, Tolstoy, Glinka and Tchaikovsky, Gorki, Chekhov, Sechenov and Pavlov, Repin and Surikov, Suvarov and Kutuzov...
...artists Repin and Surikov fixed in oil a sense of Russian gusto: Repin's Reply of the Cossacks to the Sultan curses in color. General Suvarov, who slaughtered the Turks at Ismail and the Poles at Warsaw, showed that in war a Russian can be ruthless. General Kutuzov, who lured Napoleon to his fate, showed that he can be shrewd...