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# On Gogolevsky Boulevard, Napoleon Plays Chess with His Uncle, Cardinal Mozef Fesch
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/na-gogolevskom-bulvare-napoleon-igraet-v-shakhmaty-so-svoim-diadei-kardinalom-mozefom-feshem/
- Published: 2025-06-22T12:48:37.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:29:40.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Art, Moscow, Museums, Humour

On Gogolevsky Boulevard, Napoleon plays chess with his uncle, Cardinal Mozef Fesch. Bonaparte is losing.

In fact, though, Jean-Georges Vibert's painting "Check!" is kept at the Haggin Museum in California

![](https://theparnassian.com/content/images/2026/09/photo_16976@22-06-2025_15-48-37.jpg)