Scale of events which participant was Kutuzov have left a mark on the commander's figure, having ennobled him to the epic sizes. Meanwhile, Mikhail Illarionovich represented the personality very characteristic of heroic time of the second half of XVIII - the beginnings of the 19th centuries. There was practically no military campaign in which he wouldn't take part, there was no such delicate assignment which he wouldn't execute. Perfectly feeling on a battlefield and at a negotiating table, M. I. Golenishchev-Kutuzov remained a riddle which still is completely not opened for descendants.