Talk:Battle of Tarutino

A fact from Battle of Tarutino appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 11 August 2006. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that, in his novel War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy described the Battle of Tarutino as little more than a chain of accidents and coincidences?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2006/August.

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Opening paragraph[edit]

The opening paragraph states that the battle of Tarutino is sometimes called "battle of Chernishnya" ...due to the fact that it took place 8 km from the village of Tarutino." This looks like an odd statement to me. I'm not sure how others interpret this sentence.

For me something like this would sound more logical: 'Sometimes called "battle of Chernishnya" after the local river but mostly called "battle of Tarutino" due to the fact that it took place 8 km from the village of Tarutino.' Pukkie 05:46, 11 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Well, probably I have to rephrase it. I wanted to write the following: the battle is usually called "the battle of Tarutino", but some historians contend that it should not be called this way at all because the village of Tarutino was in fact quite far from the described events (8 km). That is why they suggest that the battle should be called after the river. Blacklake (Talk) 08:13 August 11 2006

I rewrote it. Blacklake (Talk) 08:45 August 11 2006

Something that might improve this article would be to mention the unusually large number of cannon captured by the Russians at Tarutino: 39 guns. Up until this point in the war, that many cannon had not been captured by either side. 39 cannon captured in battle was considered to be huge.

Kenmore 15:38, 19 October 2006 (UTC)kenmore[reply]

The infobox data is hopelessly in error[edit]

Who changed the original information in the infobox of this article? It now contains information that is ridiculously inaccurate. It claims that the Russian side was commanded by General Bennigsen, and that the Russian only had two army corps and 11 regiments of cavalry. That's not exactly true. In reality, the entire Russian army of 90,000 troops was present for the battle, and General Kutuzov was in command. Bennigsen commanded only a segment of the Russian corps, directing the two corps and the 11 cavalry regiments. What is the point behind listing only Bennigsen's contingent of troops when the entire Russian army was present on the field of battle and Bennigsen himself was under the direction of Kutuzov?

I don't see any advantage to this latest, confusing and misleading information in the article's infox. Whoever wrote the original article should restore the information first used in the infox, which was accurate.Kenmore (talk) 18:18, 22 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

You are correct that it should be Kutuzov and should be 90,000. I have made edits accordingly. It looks like Bennigsen has been incorrectly listed as the Russian commander ever since this article was first created, for some reason. As for the strength of the army, it looks like the numbers listed previously were only counting those under Orlov-Denisov. --Shmarrighan (talk) 07:23, 19 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]