Conference of Dresden (1812) reach that Napoleon demonstrated at Dresden may have helped persuade the American government of the advantages of entering into a war with Britain. The War of 1812 was declared in June of that year. Prior to the conference Napoleon had maintained a mask of friendship towards Russia and it was the first time that his intentions towards that country became apparent. Conference of Dresden (1812) The Conference of Dresden was a May 1812 gathering of European leaders arranged by Napoleon I of France as part of his preparations for the invasion of Russia. It was intended as a demonstration of
Tolstoy family major estate Herresta outside Stockholm. Leo Tolstoy's last surviving grandchild, Countess Tatiana Paus née Tolstoy, died in 2007 at Herresta. Two of Leo Tolstoy's great-great-grandsons are Pyotr Tolstoy, a Russian TV presenter and State Duma deputy since 2016 and Vladimir Tolstoy, journalist and adviser to the President of Russia on culture. Several places in Russia are named to commemorate Leo Tolstoy, e.g., Tolstoy-Yurt, village in Chechnya. Tolstoy family Tolstoy, or Tolstoi (), is a family of Russian gentry whose branch had made it into the high aristocracy of the Russian Empire. Descendants of Andrey Kharitonovich Tolstoy ("the Fat"), who moved