Excerpt from Around the Kremlin: Or Pictures of Life in Moscow Charms of Moscow - Growth and Progress of the City - Hostile Inva sions - Successful Defence of Moscow - St. Petersburg a Town of Yesterday - The Invasion of 1812 - Impressions on entering the old Muscovite Capital - Its Position -the Moskwa - The Sparrow Hills - Parties_ of Pleasure - View of the City - The Battle of Borodino -who were the Victors -a Proud Moment for N apoleon - Wilna - Energy of the Russian Defence - Napoleon in the Palace of Peterhoff - Remarkable Contrast - Humiliation of the Invaders Retreat of the French - Dispersion and Destruction of the Grand Army - Moscow Avenged. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.