#Borodino

[galakteon]

Back on tumblr to celebrate austerlitz day with prince Bagration! <3 (with yermolov and his pun)

[bantarleton]

Rediscovered this absolute banger on the shelf.

[count-lero]

Some more Borodino photos (and a video) I managed to sort out. ❤️💙

[dreamconsumer]

Tsar Alexander I. Unknown artist.

[historicminiaturesnorthernva]

Voltigier Company of the 3rd Infantry Regiment, General Zajaczek’s 16th Infantry Division, General Poniatowski’s V Corps. Polish soldiers in Napoleon’s Army.

#napoleon #poland #history #napoleonicwars #polish

[miffy-junot]

Felix Yusupov on the Borodino Centenary

I was dining with the Grand Duchess Vladimir [Maria Pavlovna of Mecklenburg-Schwerin] one evening at Tsarskoe Selo when someone mentioned the festivities in connection with the centenary of the battle of Borodino. Everyone criticized the Tsarina for having forbidden the Grand Duchesses to be present at this ceremony. I urged the Grand Duchess Elena and the Grand Duchess Victoria, the daughter and daughter-in-law of my hostess, to disregard this arbitrary veto and go to Borodino incognito.. I offered to take them there myself and invited them to spend a few days at Arkhangelskoe on the way. My proposal was greeted with enthusiasm. The Grand Duchess Maria [Pavlovna] approved but refused to join us. When I told my mother she also gave her approval, but warned me that we would probably get into trouble. [...]

On our way we were to spend the night in a village with a tradesman who had placed two rooms in his house at our disposal. The larger room was given to the ladies, and the men had to make the best of the other and bed down on the floor on mattresses. As I did not feel sleepy, I went for a walk in the warm, starlit night. When I returned, I found the house in darkness and my companions busy table-turning*. The Grand Duchess Elena told me that a spirit had materialised who claimed to have commanded, in 1812, the regiment of which she herself was the honorary colonel. Mortally wounded during the battle in a village some four miles from Borodino, he had been carried to a house with a red roof, the fourth on the right on entering the village; this he described in detail. He asked the Grand Duchess to pray for the peace of his soul beside the bed in which he had died. We passed through this very village the next day on our way to Borodino. There was the red-roofed house exactly as he had described it. The Grand Duchess asked the kindly old peasant woman who opened the door to allow her to rest for a while. We could see into a room in the corner of which stood a bed. While I talked to the old woman, the Grand Duchess went into the room and, kneeling by the bed, offered up a short prayer. Then, feeling very much impressed, we got into the car and drove away under the astonished eyes of the peasant-woman.

The review had just begun when we reached Borodino. Police officials, on recognizing the Grand Duchesses, wished to lead them to the Imperial box; to their astonishment, the Grand Duchesses asked for seats in the public stand. This, as we discovered to our dismay, was next to the Imperial box. The Tsarina saw us and cast very cold glances in our direction. It was a magnificent review, and ended with the blessing of the troops. We were all very much moved when the miraculous icon of the Blessed Virgin of Smolensk was held aloft for the Benediction.

*table turning was a form of séance popular in 19th century Europe

source: Lost Splendour by Felix Yusupov, chapter 16

[pinturasdeguerra]

1812 09 07 Borodino, El combate por las flechas de Bagration - Aleksandr Averyanov

[twiginthewind-7]

Романс

Не пробуждай, не пробуждай Моих безумств и исступлений, И мимолетных сновидений Не возвращай, не возвращай!

Не повторяй мне имя той, Которой память — мука жизни, Как на чужбине песнь отчизны Изгнаннику земли родной.

Не воскрешай, не воскрешай Меня забывшие напасти, Дай отдохнуть тревогам страсти И ран живых не раздражай.

Иль нет! Сорви покров долой!.. Мне легче горя своеволье, Чем ложное холоднокровье, Чем мой обманчивый покой.

Денис Давыдов. 1834 г. /Denis Davydov. 1834

[wezg]

Review: War and Peace - by Leo Tolstoy

‘War and Peace’ needs no introduction. It holds its place in the minds of contemporary society as a literary classic. One cannot pick up a newspaper article on great books without a passing mention of Leo Tolstoy’s masterpiece. Like other classical works such as the Bible, I think that their obvious fame means and their influence on society and heir survival into modern times means that at the…

[etsu-silly]

Name me one good thing that came out of the Russian campaign. Like seriously just one

[ciderbird]

every time

[galakteon]

bahhh

kutaisov sketch + brush & coloring test

[wulfhalls]

queen i just finished the brothers karamazov and im DEVASTATED i need another book to consume me like this has for the last 2 months......what would u recommend to read after that

DUNE SERIES‼️‼️‼️‼️ WOLF HALL TRILOGY ‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️ monte cristo, war and peace, the sunne in splendour, I claudius + claudius the god,

[count-lero]

Annual visit to the Borodino field was quite pleasant this year because of extremely mild weather - with the sole exception of a day, when it was raining cats and dogs…

However, unfortunate circumstances sometimes have a bright side too. In this case the rain in the afternoon caused thick fog to appear at dusk which turned the whole landscape into a majestic dream. 🌅

[appleelevengreen]

I can excuse historical inaccuracy but I draw the line at stealing somebody else's soundtrack

[caesarsaladinn]

I briefly forgot that War and Peace isn’t a true story—it’s not easy to imagine a universe in which Pierre Bezukhov wasn’t a real dude.