Pyotr Bagration

Pyotr Bagration was a Russian general of Georgian royal origin and one of the leading commanders against Napoleon. He was mortally wounded at Borodino in 1812, becoming a major figure in Russian military memory.

Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace places Pyotr Bagration within a narrative shaped by military command and battlefield decision-making, family, marriage and personal loyalty, and social change and the pressures of ordinary life.