Fascinating New Documentary Delves into the Reasons Behind the 1812 French Invasion of Russia and How it Relates to Today's Struggle Between Russia and the West.

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1812, a historical documentary from Igor Cholmogorov, an Orthodox Christian, Russian, filmmaker, historian, and journalist who has worked for both RT and Tsargrad TV, has recently become available on his YouTube channel. Cholmogorov is a leading conservative and religious thinker, who for the past thirty years has developed a theory of Russian nationalism that is essentially Orthodox, Conservative, and at the same time, democratically oriented. Having studied at the Faculty of History of Moscow State University, he went on to study at the Faculty of Biblical Patrology of the Russian Orthodox University of St. John the Theologian. His recent work, 1812, produced for RT, provides a deep dive into the causes and ideas Russia was fighting for during its involvement in the Napoleonic Wars, leading to Napoleon’s eventual downfall.

Using period sources, Igor describes a Europe united behind an antichrist figure born of the atheistic chaos of the the French Revolution, locked in conflict with a Russia that sought meaning not in the empty words of philosophers, or peddlers of “reason,” but in the eternal truths of the Church and valor of the common Russian people. It left Napoleon fighting a war not against merely the Russian Tsar, but Russian civilisation itself.

The film also benefits from the rich heritage of museums and monuments dedicated to the war, which allow for stunning visuals. In fact, the Mother Church of Russia, Christ the Saviour Cathedral in Moscow, was built due to the events of the war. 

An Interior View of Christ the Saviour, Moscow

Grateful Russia to the Heroes of 1812, Smolensk.

It does not take the proverbial rocket scientist to comprehend that the situation Russia faced in 1812, which was annihilation at the hands of a godless unified Europe, which was hungry to replace Russian laws with the Napoleonic Code, its God anointed Tsar with an “Enlightened” impostor, and its holy religion with godless atheism, is similar to the situation Russia finds itself in today. And the outcome is no less existential. Indeed Cholmogorov says at one point, quoting Alexander Shishkov, a Russian Admiral and writer active during the war, “The conflict between Russia and the Napoleonic Empire is a moral confrontation: We stand for faith against unbelief, for freedom against lust for power, for humanity against atrocities.”

May the spirit of the Russian people prove as indomitable against today’s shabby dictators from the EU as it did against Napoleon’s United Europe in times past.

Video description and timetable from YouTube below. Auto-translated from the original Russian.

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Yegor Kholmogorov's film "1812. The First Patriotic War" is a completely unexpected look at the events of Russia's war against Napoleon, seemingly known to everyone from a textbook. Why did Russian society consider the war a national liberation war long before the first French soldier crossed our border? Did Barclay lure Napoleon deep into the country? Was Kutuzov one-eyed? Who won at Borodino and why was this battle given at all? Why did Rostopchin execute the merchant Vereshchagin and burn Moscow? Who drove Bonaparte out in the cold? How did the People's War cudgel work? How did General Dokhturov end up as Gandalf? Finally, what did all these events mean and why did Russia fight a bilingual battle to keep them bilingual?

23 locations, 14 museums, dozens of paintings and caricatures - contemporaries of the era, an opera a capella and an original soundtrack, finally - a grand battle scene, with tin soldiers in the lead roles. All this in Yegor Kholmogorov's new film about the greatest event in Russian history.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Prologue. Borodino Anniversary (Borodino Field) - 00:00

Titters (Hello, "Game of Thrones") - 3:22

Tilsit. How a shameful peace led to war (Sovetsk (Tilsit). Kaliningrad region. Tilsit Peace Museum) - 4:19

We are all looking at Napoleons. Why did Russia fight with Bonaparte (Museum of the War of 1812) - 8:14

Already God has created Russia? Russian cultural uprising (Ostafyevo Estate) - 12:09

The Silence of Victory. Why the war became patriotic (Derzhavin House Museum) - 22:02

Tver demigoddess. The Emperor's sister helps patriots (Tver Imperial Palace) - 26:57

Unlucky Leader. The myth of a cunning plan (War Gallery of the Winter Palace. The Hermitage) - 33:46

We were able to get out of it. Bagration's feat and Barclay's common sense (Borodino Panorama) - 36:10

With a cross and a weapon. What the tsarist manifestos called for (Slobodsky Palace. MGTU) - 42:45

Fusion of a Tiger and a Monkey. Holy Russia versus corrupted France (Abramtsevo estate) - 48:37

Fate spared the head of Kutuzov. Did the wounds of the commander save Russia? (Borodino Panorama) - 52:45

Miracle Strategy. What did the Russian field marshal believe in (Kazan Cathedral. St. Petersburg) - 59:11

The enemy is repulsed at all points. How Kutuzov outplayed Napoleon at Borodino - 1:02:17

Borodino Epic. The feat of the leaders and the feat of the people (Borodino Field, Hermitage, Borodino Panorama) - 1:18:42

Posters and executions. How Count Rostopchin prevented Moscow from becoming Madrid (Tsaritsyno Museum; Orlov-Denisov House) - 1:27:48

Sorrowful hard hour. Why the Russians Left Moscow (The House in Fili; by S. Moskalkov) - 1:40:35

She was preparing the fire. The ruin of Moscow and the salvation of Russia (Borodino Panorama)- 1:47:23

Wolf at the kennel. How Kutuzov's hounds hunted down Napoleon (Tarutino Museum) - 1:55:08

Yermolai. The Chernigov Dragoon and Seven Samurai (Kolotsky Monastery) - 2:00:52

Militia. Beard strikes back (Museum of the War of 1812 at Maloyaroslavets) - 2:06:11

Russian Scevola. Spirit of Russian intransigence (Russian Museum) - 2:09:34

Gvozdila and Dolbila. Theory and Practice of People's Warfare (Ilya Glazunov Museum) - 2:13:56

You won't get through! How a monastery became a barrier for Bonaparte (Maloyaroslavets, Svyato-Nikolsky Chernoostrovsky monastery) - 2:21:04

Barefoot through the frost. Napoleon not defeated, but defeated (Museum of the War of 1812) - 2:28:00

Victory Manifesto. Where did the bilinguals go? (Museum of the War of 1812) - 2:30:23

Salvation of the Fatherland. What did the War of 1812 mean for Russia and the world? (Cathedral of Christ the Savior) - 2:32:43

Closing credits - 2:37:31

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