The story of a campaign in Russia. Memoirs of the Adjutant General: Segur de

For the first time in almost two hundred years, the Russian reader has the opportunity to get acquainted with the full text of the memoirs of Count de Segur “The History of Napoleon and the Great Army in 1812.” Released in France in 1824, this work of the Adjutant General of the French Emperor withstood many publications and is considered one of the most piercing eyewitnesses of those events among the stories. It was these memories that L.N. Tolstoy used when he described the battle of Borodino in the “War and the World.”
In Russia, these memoirs came out at the beginning of the twentieth century with significant abbreviations and were reprinted several times – all in the same truncated form.
Now Zakharov represents the first complete edition of the legendary book.
“Segur explains to us the emperor better and more fully than all other witnesses. Approximately to him, he occupied the place where everything could see.
He watched the emperor for fifteen years, he looked at him with sympathetic, but with penetrating eyes. He gives us the opportunity to feel at every minute …

Author
De Segur Philipp
Editor
Rich Irina, Chutkova Victoria
Translator
Ivanov A. Yu.
Publisher
Zakharov, 2014
Genre
Memoirs

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