Portrait of Mikhail Kutuzov
by DAWE, George, Oil on canvas, 361 x 258 cm
This painting belongs to the 1812 War Gallery in the Winter Palace, St. Petersburg.
Prince Mikhail Illarionovich Golenishchev-Kutuzov (1745-1813) was the Russian Field Marshal who defeated the Napoleon’s Grande Arm�e during Napoleon’s invasion of Russia of 1812, the decisive turning point of the Napoleonic Wars.