In Popular Culture
In the 1941 Errol Flynn movie They Died With Their Boots On, a fictional account of the life of George Armstrong Custer, Murat is credited with being Custer's role model.
Murat is included as a minor character in Tolstoy's War and Peace, introduced in the prelude to the battle of Borodino.
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