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Tarutino
No, I don't. Probably Tarle does. You may also ask WikiProject Military history/Napoleonic Era task force. Cheers, Ghirla  -трёп-  14:38, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
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Hello Blacklake!
I am Kenmore. I like your descriptions of the battles of Tarutino, Klyastnitsy, and others. Fine work indeed.

The Russians certainly won many splendid victories in 1812 against the French. Napoleon was defeated by the Russians and forced to retreat. Not many people in the West are aware of the truth behind Napoleon's defeat: that the Russians defeated him in a war of attrition, then they defeated him in combat.

Send me a message anytime if you'd like to cooperate. I am American, and in the future I will need someone to interpret some Russian sources for me, such as Bogdanovich.

Best Regards, Kenmore 19:08, 2 October 2006 (UTC)kenmore

Can you upload this map of Krasnoi onto Wikipedia Commons?
I am unable to upload this map for some reason...can you do it for me? It shows the Russian ring of troops closing in on the defeated French on Nov. 17th...I want to make it part of my Krasnoi article.

http://www.ncl.ac.uk/library/specialcollections/images/treasure_2003_02.gif

Here's the URL of the website where I found it: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/library/specialcollections/treasure_2003_02.php

Thanks!

Kenmore 02:55, 4 October 2006 (UTC)kenmore

Sergei Petrovich Trubetskoy
I have deleted the article as you requested. In future, if you want to change the name of an article, just hit the "move" (between the "history" and "unwatch") and enter the new name of the article. Disclaimer:if you think the move may be controversial, discuss it first. Happy editing abakharev 23:34, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

Sergeev
I have reworded and cleaned the article. I do not believe it is a copyvio now, more like a stub abakharev 06:16, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

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Alekhine
Thanks for your query - I hope to find time to look that up for you later today, probably this evening. Would you like the Brace quote/page number as well? Regards Brittle heaven (talk) 07:47, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Well, if there are some more details there, it would be great. I asked about Companion only since I knew that there is some information there and didn't know at all about Brace. --Blacklake (talk) 08:12, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

Okay, Bill Wall appears to infer a little more detail from Hooper & Whyld than is actually stated, unless it is described differently in another edition. From H & W - " ... He found time to take a third wife, Nadezda Vasiliev, the widow of a high-ranking Russian Officer, and to commence law studies at the Sorbonne, although he did not gain the doctorate that he claimed."

I only asked if you were interested in Brace because Bill Wall mentions his contradictory stance in the same paragraph as he mentions Hooper & Whyld. From Brace - " ... He moved to Paris in 1921 and became a naturalised French citizen in 1925, the same year that he received a doctorate in law from the Sorbonne."

With so many differing opinions, it is certainly difficult to know whether his doctorate was genuine or not. Oddly, I once had a manager who had no doctorate, yet he met up regularly with a bunch of Ph. D. professors from the local University and when they wrote to him, they used to address him as Dr. ... either it was a misunderstanding or he had pretended to be a fellow academic! Brittle heaven (talk) 23:31, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

OTRS query
Could You take a look here, commons:Commons:OTRS/Noticeboard? feydey (talk) 16:55, 5 November 2009 (UTC)

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RE: Image Copyright Status
Hi,

Yes this image is from a website that has gone down. However, since the photographer is unknown, doesn't it fall under PD as the said photo was taken more than 40 years ago ? Do let me know your thoughts. '  Perseus 71  talk 01:01, 12 April 2010 (UTC)
 * I left a reply on your talk page. --Blacklake (talk) 07:11, 12 April 2010 (UTC)


 * I see your point. In that case go ahead and delete both images please. '  Perseus 71  talk 23:32, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

Spassky query
A pleasure to help a fellow Gathering fan of course. I only have the 1984 edition where it appears on p.318 - It says ″161, the Leningrad Variation of the Nimzo-indian Defence; 177, line in the King's Indian Defence, known since the game Stoltz-Kashdan, Bled 1931.″


 * This may need some explanation - the two numbers refer to references in the chart of opening moves given near the end of the book. On this chart, 161 is appended at the start of the Leningrad Var. of the Nimzo, characterized by 3. ... Bb4 4.Bg5. Probably you are familiar. Indeed, Spassky was one of the main exponents of this line and it is often given under his name in English texts. The second use of the term Spassky Variation, 177, is appended at the end of a major line of the Grunfeld Defence - 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.cxd5 Nxd5 5.e4 Nxc3 6.bxc3 Bg7 7.Bc4 0-0 8.Ne2 c5. I'm not sure why the authors call this a King's Indian Defence in the Spassky Variation article - I can only imagine that historically all such lines were grouped under King's Indian Defence until the Grunfeld became big in its own right, which may have been after Bled 1931. In the chart, they do acknowledge that the game has become a Grunfeld Def. after 3... d5, so it does not appear to be an error on the author's part, more a question of historical accuracy I think. Brittle heaven (talk) 00:48, 9 January 2013 (UTC)

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