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Napoleon in Russia: invader turned icon AFP 2 hrs ago AFP © Natalia KOLESNIKOVA During the Soviet period, the Bolsheviks glorified Napoleon as a revolutionary akin to Lenin In the early 19th century, the French-speaking Russian nobility admired French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, seen then as an unparalleled political and military strategist. But when his army invaded Russia in 1812, residents of Moscow preferred to torch their capital and leave it in ruins rather than surrender it to the hated Corsican general. Two hundred years after his death in exile on the remote Atlantic island of St. Helena, an anniversary marked on Wednesday, Russians views have since shifted again. 

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