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
Tolstoy Cup Tolstoy Cup The Tolstoy Cup is an annual football match played between the students of the Department of Peace Studies at the University of Bradford and the Department of War Studies at King's College London since 2007, though the match was first played in 1994. The competition is named after "War and Peace", the 1869 novel written by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy. The rivalry between 'Peace Studies' and 'War Studies' is one of the great sporting rivalries, being featured at number four on the "Financial Times" list of "Great college sports rivalries". Although it does not match the history