Napoleon Is Dead In Russia
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Napoleon Is Dead In Russia
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Author : Guido Artom
language : en
Publisher: Allen & Unwin Australia
Release Date : 1970
Napoleon Is Dead In Russia written by Guido Artom and has been published by Allen & Unwin Australia this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970 with Fiction categories.
The Illustrious Dead
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Author : Stephan Talty
language : en
Publisher: Crown
Release Date : 2009
The Illustrious Dead written by Stephan Talty and has been published by Crown this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 categories.
At the height of his power, Napoleon was unstoppable. But the tiny typhus microbe would test Napoleon to his limit. This work tells the tale of these two unstoppable historical forces meeting on the road to Moscow in a clash of killer pathogen and peerless army.
1812 Napoleon I In Russia
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Author : Vasily Vasilyevich Vereshchagin
language : en
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Release Date : 2020-09-28
1812 Napoleon I In Russia written by Vasily Vasilyevich Vereshchagin and has been published by Library of Alexandria this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-28 with Fiction categories.
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 point of view he has approached the study of his subject—one of the greatest subjects in the whole range of history—especially for a Russian artist. The point of view is—inevitably in his case—that of the Realist; and this consideration gives unity to the conception of his whole career and endeavour. He has ever painted war as it is, and therefore in its horrors, as one of its effects, though not necessarily as an effect sought in and for itself. He has tried to be “true” in all his representations of the battle-field. His work may thus be said to constitute a powerful plea in support of the Tsar’s Rescript to the Nations in favour of peace. My meaning will be best illustrated by a short sketch of M. Verestchagin and his work, as painter, as soldier, and as traveller. He was born in the province of Novgorod, in 1842, of a well-to-do family of landowners. The son wished to be an artist; the father wished to make him an officer of marines. As the shortest way out of the difficulty, he became both. He passed his work-hours at the naval school, and his play-hours at a school of design, working at each so well that he left the naval school as first scholar, and eventually won a silver medal at the Academy of Fine Arts. He entered the service, but only for a short time, and he was still three years under twenty when he quitted it to devote himself wholly to art. He was a hard-working student, though he always showed a strong disposition to insist on working in his own way. WhenGérôme sent him to the antique, he was half the time slipping away to nature. He played truant from the Athenian marbles to flesh and blood. In the meantime he was true to the instinct—as yet you could hardly call it a principle—of wandering from the beaten track in search of subjects. Every vacation was passed, not at Asnières or Barbizon, but in the far east of Europe, or even in Persia, among those ragged races not yet set down in artistic black and white. He had been on the borders of a quite fresh field of observation in these journeys; and he was soon to enter it for a full harvest of new impressions. It was in 1867; Russia was sending an army into Central Asia, to punish the marauding Turkomans for the fiftieth time, and General Kauffman, who commanded it, invited the painter to accompany him as an art volunteer. He was not to fight, but simply to look on. It was the very thing; Verestchagin at once took service on these terms with the expedition, and in faithfully following its fortunes, with many an artistic reconnaissance on his own account, he saw Asia to its core. He returned from a second Asiatic journey to settle at Munich for three years; and here he built his first “open-air studio.” “If you are to paint out-door scenes,” he says, “your models must sit in the open;” and so he fashioned a movable room on wheels, running on a circular tramway, and open to sun and air on the side nearest the centre of the circle, where the model stood. The artist, in fact, worked in a huge box with one side out, while the thing he saw was in the full glare of day; and by means of a simple mechanical contrivance he made his room follow the shifting light.
A Metrical History Of The Life And Times Of Napoleon Bonaparte
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Author : William J. Hillis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1896
A Metrical History Of The Life And Times Of Napoleon Bonaparte written by William J. Hillis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1896 with categories.
Napoleon S Campaign In Russia Anno 1812
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Author : Achilles Rose
language : en
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Release Date : 2020-09-28
Napoleon S Campaign In Russia Anno 1812 written by Achilles Rose and has been published by Library of Alexandria this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-28 with Fiction categories.
Napoleon Is Dead In Russia
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Author : Guido Artom
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1970
Napoleon Is Dead In Russia written by Guido Artom and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970 with France categories.
Napoleon In Russia
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Author : Matthew Holden
language : en
Publisher: Hodder Wayland
Release Date : 1974
Napoleon In Russia written by Matthew Holden and has been published by Hodder Wayland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with Europe categories.
Traces the full course of the Russian campaign which killed much of the French army and led to the end of Napoleon's career.
Napoleon In Russia
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Author : Alan Warwick Palmer
language : en
Publisher: Running PressBook Pub
Release Date : 2003
Napoleon In Russia written by Alan Warwick Palmer and has been published by Running PressBook Pub this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with History categories.
"Napoleon is a torrent which as yet we are unable to stem,” said Field-Marshal Prince Mikhail Kutuzov in September 1812, and then he predicted, “Moscow will be the sponge that will suck him dry.” Three months earlier, on June 24, 1812, Napoleon had made his fateful crossing of the Niemen River into Lithuania with an army of 500,000 men, which by December would be depleted by war, the weather, starvation, and disease to a mere 10,000. Sucked dry, indeed. The final six months of 1812 made of Napoleon’s boldest imperial dream his most disastrous military campaign, which historian and biographer Alan Palmer recounts here with narrative immediacy, colorful detail, analytic skill, and striking insight. He follows the French forces in their long, dusty haul from Vilna to Vitebsk to Viasma; from the frightful slaughter at Borodino to Moscow’s deserted, burning streets—and then the horrors of the grueling winter retreat. But Palmer also looks beyond the savagery of blizzards and battles to bring to his vast canvas an overall picture of a campaign that tragically cost Napoleon nearly half a million men and shaped the greatest catastrophe of his career. Illustrations and maps are included.
1812 Napoleon I In Russia
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Author : Vasilïĭ Vasilʹevich Vereshchagin
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2023-10-25
1812 Napoleon I In Russia written by Vasilïĭ Vasilʹevich Vereshchagin and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-25 with History categories.
"1812 - Napoleon I in Russia" by Vasilïĭ Vasilʹevich Vereshchagin provides readers with a vivid and poignant account of Napoleon Bonaparte's ill-fated Russian campaign. Vereshchagin's artwork is renowned for its ability to capture the essence of historical events, and this book is no exception. Through a combination of evocative paintings and insightful commentary, Vereshchagin immerses readers in the brutal realities of war and the catastrophic consequences of Napoleon's ambition. This work is a testament to the power of visual storytelling and offers a unique perspective on a pivotal moment in history.
1812
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Author : Vassili Verestchagin
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2018-01-04
1812 written by Vassili Verestchagin and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-04 with Fiction categories.
Reproduction of the original.