PICTURE GALLERY "RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN OF 1812"

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The night halt of the Great Army (The picture by Vereschagin) The night, pitch-dark wither night covered all the country around. It was just a blind folly to continue moving. Soldiers stopped and stayed overnight just in an open field. They laid their torn cloaks under themsevles, covered up with anything they could and fell asleep. And the night storm was wailing and rumbling over their heads, the thick snow was drifting huge snow-drifts and threatened to bury the Great Army under them...