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I thoroughly enjoyed reading the general's personal (but fantastical of course) narrative of Napoleon's march into Moscow. He opens his account by clarifying to the prince that he was 10 years old 'because as a 15 year old I would not have run away from our wooden house on Staraya Basmannaya on the day of Napoleon's entrance to Moscow, leaving my mother, who was too late to leave Moscow, and trembling with fear...