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London
William Heinemann
1899
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_CONTENTS_
_Page_
_Introduction_ 1
_On Progress in Art_ 16
_Realism_ 24
_I_ _Napoleon_ 53
_II_ _The Burning of Moscow_ 180
_III_ _The Cossacks_ 220
_IV_ _The Grande Armée_ 227
_V_ _The Marshals_ 256
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_FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS_
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_Vassili Verestchagin_ _Frontispiece_
_A Dispatch_ 72
_Russian Grenadiers_ 78
_At Borodino_ 92
_Looking towards Moscow_ 108
_Disillusion_ 128
_On the Way Home_ 145
_Bivouac_ 155
_Despair_ 162
_At a Council of War_ 176
_Armed Peasant_ 186
_In a Russian Church_ 197
_Ney and the Staff_ 252
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“1812”
NAPOLEON I IN RUSSIA