Chapter I: Front Matter

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“1812”

NAPOLEON I IN RUSSIA

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ART

GAINSBOROUGH. By WALTER ARMSTRONG, Director of the National Gallery,
Ireland. With 62 Photogravures and 10 Lithographs in Colour. £5
5_s._ net.

LEONARDO DA VINCI. From the French of EUGÈNE MUNTZ. In 2 vols., with
20 Photogravures, 26 Coloured Plates, and about 200 Text
Illustrations. £2 2_s._ net.

MEISSONIER. By VALLERY C. O. GREARD. From the French by LADY MARY
LOYD and FLORENCE SIMMONDS. With 38 Full-page Plates, and 250
Text Illustrations. £1 16_s._ net.

CORREGGIO. By CORRADO RICCI. Translated by FLORENCE SIMMONDS. With
16 Photogravures, 21 Full-page Plates in Colour, and 160
Illustrations in Text. £2 2_s._ net.

REMBRANDT. By EMILE MICHEL. Edited by FREDERICK WEDMORE. With 76
Full-page Plates and 250 Text Illustrations. £2 2_s._ net.

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NEW LETTERS OF NAPOLEON I. Omitted from the Edition published under
the auspices of Napoleon III. Translated from the French by LADY
MARY LOYD. 15_s._ net.

NAPOLEON AND THE FAIR SEX. From the French of FRÉDÉRIC MASSON. With
a Portrait. 6_s._

LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN.
21 BEDFORD STREET, W.C.

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“1812” NAPOLEON I IN RUSSIA

by

VASSILI VERESTCHAGIN

With an Introduction by R. Whiteing

Illustrated from Sketches and Paintings by the Author

London William Heinemann 1899

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_This Edition enjoys copyright in all countries signatory to the Berne Treaty, and is not to be imported into the United States of America._

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_CONTENTS_

_Page_
_Introduction_ 1
_On Progress in Art_ 16
_Realism_ 24
_I_ _Napoleon_ 53
_II_ _The Burning of Moscow_ 180
_III_ _The Cossacks_ 220
_IV_ _The Grande Armée_ 227
_V_ _The Marshals_ 256

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_FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS_

_Page_
_Vassili Verestchagin_ _Frontispiece_
_A Dispatch_ 72
_Russian Grenadiers_ 78
_At Borodino_ 92
_Looking towards Moscow_ 108
_Disillusion_ 128
_On the Way Home_ 145
_Bivouac_ 155
_Despair_ 162
_At a Council of War_ 176
_Armed Peasant_ 186
_In a Russian Church_ 197
_Ney and the Staff_ 252

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“1812”
NAPOLEON I IN RUSSIA