evidence: Kutuzov: A Life in War and Peace [...] Mikaberidze, Alexander, 'Prologue', Kutuzov: A Life in War and Peace (New York, 2022; online edn, Oxford Academic, 18 Aug. 2022), https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197546734.002.0009, accessed 9 Oct. 2024. [...] For half a century Mikhail Illarionovich Golenischev-Kutuzov, or simply Kutuzov, as he is widely known, served in almost every major conflict in which Russia and its empresses and emperors engaged. He was a man of contrasts, inspiring and exasperating, of considerable personal charm and keen intellect, but calculating and artful; а loving father of five daughters who relished life with great enthusiasm and a strong sense of fun, but whom contemporaries castigated as a "one-eyed old satyr" and an inveterate womanizer. His mentality was cosmopolitan yet he was an unabashed proponent of the Russian imperialism who could not fully express with what "pleasure and gratitude" he received the news of the partitioning of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1793. He also handsomely profited from it, gaining vast tracts of lands in western Ukraine; it is not surprising, therefore, that with the outbreak of the Russo-Ukranian War in 2014, Kutuzov came to personify the Russian colonialism, leading to some of his monuments being dismantled in Ukraine.