1812 Napoleon I in Russia

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Vasili?i? Vasil?evich Vereshchagin

INTRODUCTION

ON PROGRESS IN ART

REALISM I

II

I NAPOLEON

II THE BURNING OF MOSCOW

III THE COSSACKS

IV THE GRANDE ARMEE

V THE MARSHALS

Title: "1812" Napoleon I in Russia

Author: Vasilïĭ Vasilʹevich Vereshchagin

Language: English

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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.

LEONARDO DA VINCI. From the French of EugÈne Muntz. In 2 vols., with 20 Photogravures, 26 Coloured Plates, and about 200 Text Illustrations. £2 2s. 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 16s. net.

CORREGGIO. By Corrado Ricci. Translated by Florence Simmonds. With 16 Photogravures, 21 Full-page Plates in Colour, and 160 Illustrations in Text. £2 2s. net.

REMBRANDT. By Emile Michel. Edited by Frederick Wedmore. With 76 Full-page Plates and 250 Text Illustrations. £2 2s. net.

NEW LETTERS OF NAPOLEON I. Omitted from the Edition published under the auspices of Napoleon III. Translated from the French by Lady Mary Loyd. 15s. net.

NAPOLEON AND THE FAIR SEX. From the French of FrÉdÉric Masson. With a Portrait. 6s.

LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN.
21 Bedford Street, W.C.
‘Author’s
“1812”
NAPOLEON I IN RUSSIA
BY
VASSILI VERESTCHAGIN
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY
R. WHITEING
Illustrated from Sketches and Paintings by the Author
‘Printer’s
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
    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
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
“1812”
NAPOLEON I IN RUSSIA
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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