Mikhail Kutuzov
Field Marshal of the Russian Empire (1745-1813) · Russia · Politicians · Lived 1747 to 1813 · aged 65
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Something wrong?The Russian field marshal who took two bullets to the head fighting the Turks - decades apart - and lived to bleed Napoleon dry in 1812. Kutuzov won by refusing to win: he retreated, burned, waited, and let winter finish what attrition started.
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Born in 1745, Mikhail Golenishchev-Kutuzov served three Romanov rulers as both soldier and diplomat. He was shot in the head in 1774 fighting the Ottomans, then again in 1788 - both times he survived wounds that should have killed him. By 1812, now a field marshal, he commanded Russia's defense against Napoleon's Grande Armée. He chose attrition over pitched battle: falling back, scorching earth, stretching supply lines until the invaders crumbled. At Krasnoi he crushed the retreat, earning the victory title "Smolensky" appended to his name. Alexander I called him one of Europe's greatest commanders; Kutuzov died in April 1813, months after the war he'd won by refusing to fight it on Napoleon's terms.
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