1780 coat of arms of Krasny

Krasny (Russian: Кра́сный) is an urban-type settlement in Smolensk Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Svinaya and Mereya Rivers 67 km^[1] south-west of Smolensk. It is the administrative center of Krasninsky District. Population: 4,714 (2002 Census); 5,087 (1989 Census). Urban-type settlement (Russian: , posyolok gorodskogo tipa; Ukrainian: , selyshche miskoho typu; abbreviated as in Russian and as in Ukrainian) is an official designation for a certain type of urban settlements used in some of the countries of the former Soviet Union. ... Smolensk Oblast (Russian: ) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). ... Confluence of Rhine and Mosel at Koblenz In geography, a confluence describes the point where two rivers meet and become one, usually when a tributary joins a more major river. ... A view of Smolensk in 1912. ... Russian Census of 2002 (Russian: ) was the first census of Russian Federation carried out on October 9, 2002. ...

The settlement was first mentioned in 1165. It was granted town status in 1776, but did not retain it during Soviet times.

During Napoleon's invasion of Russia, in 1812, Krasny was the place of two noted battles, one when Napoleon's army entered Russia and another one on its return. Kazan Cathedral in St Petersburg and the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow were built to commemorate the Russian victory against Napoleon. ... For other uses, see Napoleon (disambiguation). ...

The Battle of Krasnoi in August 1812 was a lesser action of Murat's avant guard against the small retreating Russian rearguard of Dmitri Neverovsky, notable by unexpectedly heavy resistance by the Russians. De Ségur in his Napoleonic history wrote that Neverovsky retreated "like a lion". Joachim Murat, King of Naples, Marshal of France Murat portrait, by François Pascal Simon, Baron Gérard, c. ...

At the Battle of Krasnoi in November 1812, the Russian army inflicted heavy losses on the remnants of the French Grande Armée. There are two monuments in Krasny commemorating that event, both erected in 1912. The settlement also houses a museum of local lore, whose three exhibits include materials on the Patriotic War of 1812, Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945, and on modern life at the settlement. Combatants First French Empire Russian Empire Commanders Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov Strength 42,000 regulars, 39,000 stragglers 60,000-80,000 Casualties 6,000-13,000 killed, 20,000-26,000 captured ~ (almost all stragglers) 5,000 The Battle of Krasnoi (Krasny) (November 15 to 18, 1812... The name La Grande Armée (French for the Big Army, the Great Army, or the Grand Army) first entered the annals of history when, in 1805, Napoleon I renamed the army that he had assembled on the French coast of the English Channel for the proposed invasion of Britain... Combatants Soviet Union,1 Poland (from January 1945) Germany,1 Italy (to 1943), Romania (to 1944), Finland (to 1944), Hungary, Slovakia Commanders Aleksei Antonov, Azi Aslanov, Ivan Konev, Rodion Malinovsky, Ivan Bagramyan, Kirill Meretskov, Ivan Petrov, Alexander Rodimtsev, Konstantin Rokossovsky, Pavel Rotmistrov, Semyon Timoshenko, Fyodor Tolbukhin, Aleksandr Vasilevsky, Nikolai Vatutin...

External link

• Spouses Yerashovs Museum of Local Lore of Krasny (Russian)

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