Napoleon in Russia: invader turned icon
"Two hundred years after his death in exile on the remote Atlantic island of St. Helena, an anniversary marked on Wednesday, Russians' views have since shifted. ..'We admire his rise from rags to riches and his death as a martyr,' Viktor Bezotnosny, a historian and specialist of the Napoleonic wars told AFP...."
We admire his rise from rags to riches and his death as a martyr,
Did they confuse him with Lenin?