Kovno, the traditional Slavicized form of its name. The Polish name is Kowno [ˈkɔvnɔ], and the names in Belarusian include Koўна (Kowna [ˈkou̯nɐ]) and...

her youngest child. Born Elisabeth Magdalena Freiin von Lerchenfeld in Kowno, Imperial Russia (now Kaunas, Lithuania), in 1913, she was known by her...

each other to assess losses. Caused by this correction Napoleon started at Kowno with ≈340,000 men and not with ≈422,000 according to Minard's map. The number...

Cossacks Crossing the Berezina River by Victor Adam Marshal Ney at the Kowno redoubt by Auguste Raffet Belligerents French Empire Kingdom of Poland Duchy...

Berezina 8 Maloyaroslavets 7 Moscow 6 Borodino 5 Smolensk 4 Vitebsk 3 Vilna 2 Kowno 1    The Battle of Maloyaroslavets took place on 24 October 1812 as part...

Berezina 8 Maloyaroslavets 7 Moscow 6 Borodino 5 Smolensk 4 Vitebsk 3 Vilna 2 Kowno 1    The Battle of Smolensk was the first major battle of the French invasion...

disease. Military brothels were introduced to combat disease; the city of Kowno emphasized proper educational use of contraceptives such as condoms, encouraged...

Marshal Ney at the Kowno redoubt by Raffet...

Warsaw 9 Berezina 8 7 Moscow 6 Borodino 5 Smolensk 4 Vitebsk 3 Vilna 2 Kowno 1    The Battle of Tarutino (Russian: Тарутинское сражение) was a part of...

completed a Yeshiva and was self-educated. He taught German and French in Kowno and later worked as a translator at a railway bridge construction for a...

8 Maloyaro- slavets 7 Moscow 6 Borodino 5 Smolensk 4 Vitebsk 3 Vilna 2 Kowno 1    The Battle of Shevardino took place on 5 September 1812 (24 August...

Lithuania this was achieved for the first time by Partisan activities in Kowno. To our surprise it was not easy at first to set in motion an extensive...

8 Maloyaro- slavets 7 Moscow 6 Borodino 5 Smolensk 4 Vitebsk 3 Vilna 2 Kowno 1    The Battle of Borisov took place on 21 November 1812, between parts...

Berezina 8 Maloyaroslavets 7 Moscow 6 Borodino 5 Smolensk 4 Vitebsk 3 Vilna 2 Kowno 1    The Battle of (the) Berezina (or Beresina) took place from 26 to 29...

1931) was a Lithuanian composer. Ljuba Bachrach was born on 24 June 1877 in Kowno in the Russian Empire (present day Kaunas, Lithuania). She was the daughter...

Berezina 8 Maloyaroslavets 7 Moscow 6 Borodino 5 Smolensk 4 Vitebsk 3 Vilna 2 Kowno 1    The siege of Riga was a military operation during the Napoleonic Wars...

Berezina 8 Maloyaro- slavets 7 Moscow 6 Borodino 5 4 Vitebsk 3 Vilna 2 Kowno 1    The First Battle of Krasnoi was fought on 14 August between Ney's French...

Napoleon Baniewicz and his wife Maria Baniewicz (born Maria Citowiczówna) in Kowno (today Kaunas, Lithuania), then part of the Russian Empire. His father was...

8 Maloyaro- slavets 7 Moscow 6 Borodino 5 Smolensk 4 Vitebsk 3 Vilna 2 Kowno 1    The Battle of Liaskowa (or Lyakhovo) took place 9 November 1812 near...

Hindenburg and Ludendorff in Kowno summer 1916...

8 Maloyaro- slavets 7 Moscow 6 Borodino 5 Smolensk 4 Vitebsk 3 Vilna 2 Kowno 1    The Battle of Gorodechno took place between an army of the Austrian...

Avraham. Surviving the Holocaust: the Kovno Ghetto diary. – Cambridge, 1990. Kowno // Enzyklopädie des Holocaust. Die Verfolgung und Ermordung der europäischen...

consisted of paper money issued on 4 April 1918 by the Darlehnskasse in Kowno (Kaunas) and was equal to the German Papiermark. The Ostmark circulated...

Berezina 8 Maloyaroslavets 7 Moscow 6 Borodino 5 Smolensk 4 Vitebsk 3 Vilna 2 Kowno 1    French Emperor Napoléon Bonaparte's Grande Armée occupied Moscow from...

in love with a young Polish noble girl, the daughter of the Voivode of Kowno, but after a couple of meetings (edging into her house and in church), he...

Berezina 8 Maloyaro- slavets 7 Moscow 6 Borodino 5 4 Vitebsk 3 Vilna 2 Kowno 1    The Battle of Valutino (also called the battle of Lubino) took place...

8 Maloyaro- slavets 7 Moscow 6 Borodino 5 Smolensk 4 Vitebsk 3 Vilna 2 Kowno 1    The Battle of Mir took place on 9 and 10 July 1812 during Napoleon's...

8 Maloyaro- slavets 7 Moscow 6 Borodino 5 Smolensk 4 Vitebsk 3 Vilna 2 Kowno 1    The Battle of Wolkowisk (Volkovysk) took place 14–16 November 1812...

Ney at Kowno in December 1812, painting by Auguste Raffet in the Louvre...

Berezina 8 Maloyaroslavets 7 Moscow 6 Borodino 5 Smolensk 4 Vitebsk 3 Vilna 2 Kowno 1    The battle of Vitebsk, sometimes spelled Witepsk, was a military engagement...