The book proposed to the attention of readers is the final part of a kind of trilogy on the history of the Patriotic War of 1812. In the first two volumes published 20 years ago, the official relations of General Prince P.I. Bagration, personal letters of General N.N. Raevsky, diaries and memoirs of soldiers of the Russian army.
The book that you are now holding in your hands is the final part of the “trilogy”. It is dedicated to the tragic events that took place in Moscow on the eve and during the Napoleonic occupation. It publishes archival relics from the funds of the Historical Museum – only 17 manuscripts.
These are the official relations of the authorities, the testimony of “victims from the ruin of the enemy”, the memories of people of various classes: noblemen, priests, merchants, bourgeois and even peasants. The reader will get acquainted with the correspondence of Empress Maria Fedorovna – the mother of Emperor Alexander I, who was worried about the fate of the Moscow Educational House, where during a terrible fire, violence and grab …
Editor
Yanovsky Andrey Dmitrievich
Publisher
Manuscript monuments of other Rusi, 2012
Genre
History of Russia until 1917, essays, letters, essays
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