French invasion of Russia part of the government. During the Cold War, many Western historians were inclined to see Russia as "the enemy", and there was a tendency to downplay and dismiss Russia's contributions to the defeat of Napoleon. As such, Napoleon's claim that the Russians did not defeat him and he was just the victim of fate in 1812 was very appealing to many Western historians. Russian historians tended to focus on the French invasion of Russia in 1812 and ignore the campaigns in 1813–1814 fought in Germany and France because a campaign fought on Russian soil was regarded as more important than
L. Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky a pagan here ("seer of flesh"), while Fyodor Dostoyevsky opposed him as a "seer of spirit". The Merezhkovsky's study on the works of Leo Tolstoy was subsequently recognized as the most detailed and accurate. L. Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky L. Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky was a critical essay written by Dmitry Merezhkovsky and published between 1900-1901 in "Mir iskusstva" magazine. The publication coincided with Leo Tolstoy's excommunication by Most Holy Synod and drew a wide public response. "L. Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky" is considered the most significant work of Merezhkovsky in the genre of literary research essays. The work was partly devoted to