prussia united, under the command of general field marshal mikhail kutuzov and peter widgenstein, then-prussian army entered berlin, then the capital of prussia, occupied by the french. troops napoleon, realizing that they could not hold the city, especially in the conditions of sharp rejection by the townspeople, left it less than a day before the arrival of the russians. the king of prussia, in gratitude, presented kutuzov with the highest award of the kingdom, the order of the black eagle and a precious snuffbox. he was offered an estate in prussia as a gift, but kutuzov refused. the russians first took berlin in the 18th century during the seven years' war. now this happened in the 19th century, a proverb just appeared: a russian warrior from polina took berlin twice, but in the 20th century, during the second world war, russian troops took berlin for the third time. on march 4, 1877, the first ballet was staged at the bolshoi theater for the first time. tchaikovsky's swan lake, although at that time it was believed that serious composers should not write ballet music, tchaikovsky