AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter One: A Tale of Two Tyrants: Napoleon and Alexander in Pushkin'sPre-Exile PoetryChapter Two: Pushkin and the Great Man: Napoleon Re-ImaginedChapter Three: Napoleon and Hero Worship: Tolstoy and War and PeaceChapter Four: History and the Great Man: Tolstoy and War and PeaceChapter Five: Napoleon as Superman: Dostoevsky and Crime and PunishmentChapter Six: Merezhkovsky and Napoleon: Re-creating the Myth of the GreatManChapter Seven: Erasing Napoleon: Eugene Tarle, Russian Literature, and SovietHistoriographyAfterword: Napoleon, the Great Man, and the Idea of HistoryBibliographyAbout the Author