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Zapiski Benkendorfa
1812 God: Otechestvennaia Voina; 1813 God: Osvobozhdenie Niderlandov
[ Benkendorf`s notes : 1812: The Patriotic war; 1813: Liberation of the Netherlands]
Memoires du comte Alexandre Benkendorf
Comp. and notes by P.N. Griunberg
Moscow: Iazyki Slavianskoi Kul`tury, 2001 
Serie: Studia Historica
ISBN: 5785902281
Language: RussianAleksandr Benkendorf (1783-1844) was a member of Emperor Aleksandr the First`s headquarters (Imperatorskaia Glavnaia Kvartira) during the Patriotic War against La Grande Armee of Napoleon I (Bonaparte). Later he was the commander of a division. His division liberated several cities of the Netherlands in 1813. This is a reprint of two fragments, published for the first time in a hundred years, about little known facts of the military campaigns of 1812-1814. The supplement includes Benkendorf`s letters to Count M. Vorontsov. All these documents together portray the general, usually known only as a prosecutor of Decembrists, as an outstanding soldier and statesman. Parallel text in French and Russian. Extensive commentary.
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