Smolensk is a city and the administrative center of Smolensk Oblast, Russia, located on the Dnieper River, 360 kilometers (220 mi) west-southwest of Moscow...
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against about 30,000 Russian troops under General Barclay de Tolly. Napoleon occupied Smolensk by driving out Prince Pyotr Bagration's Second Army. The...
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The first Battle of Smolensk (German: Kesselschlacht bei Smolensk, lit. 'Cauldron-battle at Smolensk'; Russian: Смоленская стратегическая оборонительная...
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operating Polish Air Force Flight 101 crashed near the Russian city of Smolensk, killing all 96 people on board. Among the victims were the president of...
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of the history of the city of Smolensk, Russia. Historical affiliations Kievan Rus' 882–1054 Principality of Smolensk 1054–1387 Grand Duchy of Lithuania...
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Livingston Island (redirect from Smolensk (Antarctica))
Livingston Island (Russian name Smolensk, 62°36′S 60°30′W / 62.600°S 60.500°W / -62.600; -60.500) is an Antarctic island in the Southern Ocean, part...
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The Coat of Arms of Smolensk is the official heraldic symbol of the city of Smolensk, Smolensk region, Russia. A bird Gamayun on a sable cannon with an...
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Patriarch Kirill of Moscow (redirect from Metropolitan Kirill (Gundyayev) of Smolensk and Kaliningrad)
of Smolensk, succeeds Alexei II who died in December after 18 years as head of the Russian Church. According to material from the Soviet archives, Kirill...
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(1606–1608) The De la Gardie Campaign (1609–1610) Ingrian War (1610–1617) Treaty of Stolbovo (1617) Polish–Swedish wars (1600–1611, 1617–1629) Smolensk War (1632–1634)...
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campaign, though this made him unpopular among Russians. After the Battle of Smolensk failed to halt the French and discontent among Russians continued to grow...
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Battle of Krasnoi (category History of Smolensk Oblast)
MILITAIRES DU GÉNÉRAL BON BOULART SUR LES GUERRES DE LA RÉPUBLIQUE ET DE L'EMPIRE, p. 270-271 Smolensk topographic map Adam Zamoysky (2004) Moscow 1812...
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total force of 80,000 men. He fought at the battles of Ostrovno, Vitebsk, Smolensk, Borodino, Maloyaroslavets, Krasnoi, and the Berezina. After Napoleon and...
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French invasion of Russia (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
Bagration from Barclay de Tolly. He already had lost a third of his men but beat Bagration at Mogilev and then went to Smolensk, where he joined the main...
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Mikhail Kutuzov (redirect from Prince of Smolensk Kutusov Mikhail Larionovich)
Голенищев-Кутузов-Смоленский; German: Mikhail Illarion Golenishchev-Kutuzov Fürst von Smolensk; 16 September [O.S. 5 September] 1745 – 28 April [O.S. 16 April] 1813)...
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Konstantin Rokossovsky (category Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1939–1945 (France))
city of Smolensk, where Marshal Simon Timoshenko was reassembling the shattered Western Front on a new defense line. The Battle of Smolensk commenced...
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Battle of Borodino (redirect from Bataille de la Moskowa)
Russia had appointed to replace Barclay de Tolly on 29 August [O.S. 17 August] 1812 after the Battle of Smolensk. After the Battle of Borodino, Napoleon...
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Pyotr Bagration (category Articles with German-language sources (de))
(Barclay de Tolly commanded the other) fighting a series of rear-guard actions. The Russians failed to stop the French advance at the Battle of Smolensk in...
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The Holocaust (redirect from Völkermord an de europäische Jude)
Heuman, Johannes; Rudberg, Pontus (eds.). Early Holocaust Memory in Sweden: Archives, Testimonies and Reflections. The Holocaust and its Contexts. Springer...
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Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth during the Polish–Russian War and lost Smolensk. The Time of Troubles ended with the election of Michael Romanov as tsar...
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RBMK (category CS1 maint: archived copy as title)
Wayback Machine Smolensk 2 Archived 2011-06-04 at the Wayback Machine Smolensk 3 Archived 2011-06-04 at the Wayback Machine Smolensk 4 Archived 2011-06-04...
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all Russia and the Grand Prince of Vladimir, Moscow, Novgorod, Pskov, Smolensk, Tver, Yugorsk, Perm, Vyatka and Bulgar, and others, the Sovereign and...
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officially "Palma", "Llei 15/2016, de 2 de desembre, de modificació de la Llei 23/2006, de 20 de desembre, de capitalitat de Palma de Mallorca" [Law 15/2016, of...
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Louis-Alexandre Berthier (redirect from Louis-Alexandre, Prince de Wagram Berthier)
affairs. Berthier Alexandre, Fonds: Alexandre Berthier (1789–1816). Archives de l'État de Neuchâtel. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Louis-Alexandre...
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modern Russia with Smolensk and Starodub. The largest cities in the region so defined today are Minsk, Gomel, Vitebsk, Mogilev, Smolensk and Babruysk. Black...
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Moscow, in order to lift the Polish-Lithuanian Siege of Smolensk. The campaign ended with most of De la Gardie's forces defecting to the Polish hetman Stanisław...
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Auguste Frédéric Louis Viesse de Marmont, duc de Raguse (French pronunciation: [oɡyst fʁedeʁik lwi vjɛs də maʁmɔ̃]; 20 July 1774 – 22 March 1852) was a...
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1941, Army Group Center pushed toward Moscow during the Battle of Smolensk near Smolensk. By the time Das Reich took part in the Battle of Moscow, it had...
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District of Smolensk Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Svinaya and the Mereyka Rivers 67 kilometers (42 mi) southwest of Smolensk. Population:...
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Katyn massacre (category History of Smolensk Oblast)
Massacre at the National Archives". National Archives. The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. 15 August 2016. Archived from the original on...
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hastily fortified Panther–Wotan line, but the Soviets broke through it at Smolensk and the Lower Dnieper Offensive. On 3 September 1943, the Western Allies...
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