Moscow Burnt by Fire. The City in 1812

Aleksandr Vaskin, historian of Moscow, writes about what life in the city was like in 1812: preparation for war, unexpected surrender to Napoleon followed by the fire of Moscow, life of Muscovites at the time of occupation, Napoleon’s unsuccessful attempts to conclude a truce, robberies and barbarism by the enemy soldiers, the devastation of the Orthodox churches and manors.

Moscow: Sputnik+, 2012