"Battle of Borodino: numbers and numbers again" Topic

"Documents and история. Of course, it is desirable that the date on the calendar is different now. Let's say 2022. Then we would have had the 210th anniversary of the Battle of Borodino, and any round date in our country is a very special thing in terms of information. But what is not, that is not. But September 8 is the Day of Russian Military Glory (although it would be more correct to establish it on the 7th). There is also a great interest in the battle, and it is not waning, as evidenced by the comments of the activists of "VO" in the articles on arms war of 1812. Weapons! And then what can we say about the war itself or the same Borodino battle? But what do we know about it if the theory of nuclear war from 1780 to 1816 is in vogue now, into which the Battle of Borodino simply does not fit. However, let's begin our acquaintance with this event, seemingly known to all of us. Who in school did not memorize "Borodino" by M. Yu. Lermontov? .. Let's start with what usually any research begins with historiography: who, what and when has already written about this event and how exactly the views of one historian differ from views of the other. And God bless them, with views. Let's take a look at the numbers, which are usually never taken out of the head, but are always based on some kind of documents.

Well, this time the photocopies of pages from the popular Russian magazine "Niva" for 1912 will serve as the design for this material of ours. I am sure that few VO readers have ever seen this magazine or held it in their hands. Meanwhile, this is a very, very interesting source of our knowledge about the past, both textual and illustrative, since many photographs have been placed in it since the end of the 1898th century, and, of course, there were a lot of drawings and engravings in it too. As a child, I just loved looking at the stitched binders of this magazine, which were collected in our old wooden house from 1917 to XNUMX! Now, alas, they have been gone for a long time (as a student, I dragged all of them to the Bukinist store), but the library of the Penza Regional Museum of Local Lore is now at my service, so the loss turned out, in general, not so great…"
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Armand

Interesting as have a large collection of that Russian army. Anyway you look at them I have gone over the actual numbers but for game purposes it works for me. Artillery pieces is probably the most non controversy

Happy you enjoyed it my friend! (smile)

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Armand

The line illustrations were lively, and very much of their period.
The Text itself was …. of variable clarity.
Another interesting contribution, one which I'd never have found otherwise.
Thanks again. ""*[//]) {> ::::

A votre service mon ami!. (smile)

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Armand