French invasion of Russia French invasion of Russia The French invasion of Russia, known in Russia as the Patriotic War of 1812 () and in France as the Russian Campaign (), began on 24 June 1812 when Napoleon's crossed the Neman River in an attempt to engage and defeat the Russian army. Napoleon hoped to compel Tsar Alexander I of Russia to cease trading with British merchants through proxies in an effort to pressure the United Kingdom to sue for peace. The official political aim of the campaign was to liberate Poland from the threat of Russia. Napoleon named the campaign the Second Polish
Leo Tolstoy Institute of Philology and Intercultural Communication Leo Tolstoy Institute of Philology and Intercultural Communication Leo Tolstoy Institute of Philology and Intercultural Communication, formerly Kazan Imperial University, is a higher educational institution of Kazan, one of the largest institutes of Kazan (Volga region) Federal University. The famed Russian writer Leo Tolstoy was a former student of Kazan University. IPIC has more than 3,000 students, 300 teachers and staff members, including 71 Ph.D and 188 candidates of sciences, 9 teachers from foreign countries. The Institute comprises 3 academic divisions: the Higher School of Russian and Foreign Philology, Gabdulla Tukay Higher School of Tatar Studies and Turkology and the