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“1812” NAPOLEON I IN RUSSIA

GAINSBOROUGH. By Walter Armstrong, Director of the National Gallery, Ireland. With 62 Photogravures and 10 Lithographs in Colour. £5 5s. net.

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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

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

CONTENTS

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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

FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS

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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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