Napoleon in the Russian Imaginary: The Idea of the Great Man in the Works of Pushkin, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Merezhkovsky, and Evgenii Tarle

Napoleon in the Russian Imaginary focuses on the response of Russia's greatest writers--poets, novelists, critics, and historians--to the idea of "Great Man" as an agent of transformational change as it manifests itself in the person and career of Napoleon.