Leo Tolstoy: War and Peace

BOOK FIFTEEN: 1812 - 13 4. CHAPTER IV (continued)

Not only did his contempories, carried away by their passions, talk in this way, but posterity and history have acclaimed Napoleon as grand, while Kutuzov is described by foreigners as a crafty, dissolute, weak old courtier, and by Russians as something indefinite- a sort of puppet useful only because he had a Russian name.

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