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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  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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[Illustration: Signed author’s portrait]


“1812”
NAPOLEON I IN RUSSIA

by

VASSILI VERESTCHAGIN

With an Introduction by R. Whiteing

Illustrated from Sketches and Paintings by the Author







[Illustration: Printer’s decoration]

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


                              INTRODUCTION

The following pages are not offered to the reader as a history of the
invasion of Russia by Napoleon. They are but the statement of the basis
of observation on which M. Verestchagin has founded his great series of
pictures illustrative of the campaign. These pictures are now to be
exhibited in this country, and the painter has naturally desired to show
us from what