On the cover of this book, it is no coincidence that a drawing from the series “Russian Cossacks in Paris” was placed, conveying the unusually peaceful atmosphere of the presence of the Russian army in the French capital in 1814. This is completely incomparable with the way Napoleon’s soldiers behaved in Moscow in 1812, having arranged a pogrom in the pioneers and tore off the ancient Russian capital as a sticky. It is about the life of Moscow in that heroic year that is narrated in this book: the preparation of the city for the war, its unexpected surrender to Napoleon, and then the forced self -relief of the pioneers, the life of Muscovites during the occupation, the seat of Napoleon in Moscow and its unsuccessful attempts to conclude a truce, robbery and barbarism of enemy soldiers, the ruin of Orthodox churches and nobleman manor …
And also the psychological portrait of the Moscow Governor General Rostopchin, who was a catalyst for events of two hundred years ago, his relationship with Kutuzov and Alexander I, the details of the creation of a balloon to combat the French, Spionsk …
Author
Vaskin Alexander Anatolyevich
Publisher
Satellite+, 2012
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