This volume of the Great Commanders series presents to the reader an outstanding military and statesman of Russia in the first half of the 19th century. General Alexei Petrovich Ermolov. Hero of the Patriotic War of 1812, proconsul of the Caucasus, Ermolov was the son of the era of greatness and power of Russia, which gave rise to a galaxy of prominent Russian commanders and statesmen, whose meaning of life was to serve the Fatherland. A man of strong will and independent views, who did not recognize the authorities as a patriot, an always oppositionist of the authorities and at the same time a faithful son of the Fatherland, Ermolov earned the love of soldiers and respect from civil society. A.S. Pushkin asked the general for permission to become his biographer. "Your exploits are the property of the Fatherland, and your glory belongs to Russia," he wrote to Yermolov.