World history: Museums of the Moscow Kremlin to participate in the exhibition “Napoleon and Europe” in Paris

In Paris, the Army Museum of the House of Invalids hosted the exhibition “Napoleon and Europe”. It is organized by the Museum of the Army and was developed jointly with the National Arts Centre and the exposition of the Federal Republic of Germany, with the support and participation of the Fund of Napoleon.

More than three hundred works, provided by the leading museums of the world, allow us to trace the profound and significant mark in the history of Europe, which Napoleon Bonaparte left. The exhibition tells about the ambitious plans of Napoleon’s conquest of Europe in the years 1793-1815. The judgments of his contemporaries in the military field, politics, management, finance, advocacy, art brought.

The Moscow Kremlin Museums feature in the exhibition a unique monument - Tunic of Tsar Alexander I. Specific details of cut and trim suggest that this officer’s uniform of the Life Guards Regiment is a model of 1802-1806.