About the events of the Patriotic War of 1812, its impact on the worldview, life and work of the hussar and poet, general-lieutenant Denis Davydov.At the beginning of the war, Davydov was a lieutenant colonel in the Akhtyr hussar regiment and was in the vanguard troops of General I.V. Vasilchikov. On August 21, 1812, in the sight of the village of Borodino, where he grew up and where his parental house was hurriedly dismantled for fortifications, five days before the great battle, Denis Vasilievich offered Kutuzov the idea of his own partisan detachment, which became a model of courage and courage in battles with an insidious invader.