Authors: Adam Zamoyski
Nesselrode, Karl von 122, 128, 170
Netherlands 40, 41, 540
Neuchâtel, Prince de,
see
Berthier, A.
Neverovsky, Gen. Dmitri Petrovich 212, 216, 254, 269, 288
Ney, Marshal Michel. Duc d’Elchingen, Prince de la Moskowa: against giving battle 407
Berezina commander 471–3
at Borodino 257–8, 270–1, 275
bravery of 427–8, 516
commands rearguard 516
Corps of,
see
Grande Armée: 3rd Corps;
daring escape from Miloradovich 427–30, 438, 446
defence of Kovno 518–19
feared lost 425–6
on gravity of situation at Berezina 464
parade uniform looted 443–4
refuses to surrender 426
restores order in Vilna 510
at Smolensk 214, 216, 217, 223
at Valutina Gora 225
Nicholas I, Tsar 552
as Grand Duke 432
Niemen river 27, 93, 117, 123, 130, 144, 492
crossing of 131, 140, 143, 146, 148–9, 152, 182, 557
recrossing of 518–19, 520, 533
maps 118, 167, 437
Nieshviezh 166, 171fn
map 167
Noel, Major Jean 512–13, 514, 518
Norway 247
Old Believers 200
Oldenburg, Duchy of 70, 72, 76
Olive, Guillaume 542
Orlov, Gen. Mikhail 551
Orlov-Denisov, Gen. Vasili Vasilievich 362
Orsha 180, 193, 204, 380, 419, 422, 425, 427, 430, 438, 439, 484
maps 210, 413, 421, 423, 437
Oshmiana 504
Ostermann-Tolstoy, Gen. Count
Aleksandr Ivanovich 177, 203, 223, 291, 550
Ostrovno 177
Ottoman Empire, see Turkey
Oudinot, Marshal Nicolas Charles, Duc de Reggio 457
and Berezina crossing, 461–6, 471
Corps of, see Grande Armée: 2nd Corps;
defeated in 1813 campaign 546
ordered to Borisov 438
wounded 406, 471
Ozerov, Vladislav Aleksandrovich:
Dmitry Donskoi 30
Pac, Count 165
Pahlen, Gen. Count Peter von 178, 209, 317, 459
Paixhans, Col. Henri-Joseph de 101, 383–4, 392
Paradis, Lt 345
Parguez, Col. 345, 356
Paris 1–2, 9, 49, 99, 338, 546
Partouneaux, Gen. Louis 468, 469
Pasquier, Etienne Denis 108
Pastoret, Amédée de 409, 411, 414, 485
Paul I, Tsar of Russia 17, 21, 33, 34
murder of 21, 22, 24, 24 121, 246
Pelet, Col. 389, 390–1, 392, 398, 417–18, 427, 506
Pelleport, Col. Vicomte de 234
Peninsular War 103
Bailén 48
false reports reach St Petersburg 127
French troops enter Lisbon 32
guerrilla
war in 231
Junot defeated at Vimiero 35
Legion of Vistula sent to 60
Madrid falls to British 338, 361
Napoleon’s presence needed 75, 76
Salamanca 235, 261
Vittoria 545
Wellington and 54, 124, 235, 338, 545
Peppler, Lt 322
Périgord, Louis, Comte de 63
Persia 34
Peter the Great, Tsar 17, 205, 306
Petrovskoie 300, 347
Peyrusse, Guillaume, Baron 346, 487, 513
Phüll, Lt Gen. Karl Ludwig von 125, 127, 128, 171, 176
Pichler, Caroline 49
Pils, François 464, 465
Pion des Loches, Col. Antoine Augustin 89, 233, 302, 356–7
Piré, Gen. 177
Pitt, William, the Younger 24
Planat de la Faye, Lt Nicolas Louis 149, 277, 451, 497, 511, 517
Plater, Gen. Count Ludwik 402
Platon, Metropolitan 205
Platov, Gen. Matviei Ivanovich: attacks French 166, 387, 410
at Borodino 275–6, 286
closes in on Ney 429
cossacks of 166, 209, 237, 256, 410
denounced as traitor 317
Kutuzov’s instructions to 436
treatment of prisoners 531
on treatment of traitors 238
urges Kutuzov to mount attack 362
Pleshchenitse 482, 486
Pokrovsky, Mikhail Nikolaevich xix
Poland 27, 28, 30, 32, 123, 311
French/Russian convention on 60–1
Grande Armée in 161–5
and Lithuania 160, 161
national insurrection 103, 132, 133, 195
partition of 8, 20, 41, 43–4, 58, 65, 73
population 189–90, 198–9
religion 198
restoration of Kingdom of 58–61, 68–9, 72, 74, 126, 132–3, 159, 161, 164, 195, 520
roads, villages and terrain 93, 135, 182, 189
vacancy for throne of 133
see also
Warsaw, Grand Duchy of
Polish Confederation, see Confederation of Warsaw
Polotsk 194, 308, 402
Alexander in 172–3
Alexander’s proclamation issued in 201
Bavarians reach 188
Napoleon aims for 176
siege of 406–7, 409, 432, 536
wounded in 529–30
Pomerania 65, 66, 104, 247
Ponary 512
Poniatowski, General Prince Józef:
Alexander attempts to bribe 126, 128
alerts Napoleon to Russian troop concentrations 71
attempts to defend Warsaw 535
at Borodino 258, 268, 273, 275, 280
death of 546
friction with Jérôme 168
Polish Corps of,
see
Grande Armée: 5th Corps;
and Polish question 133, 195
rejects Alexander’s proposal for Poland 69
reprimanded by Napoleon
167, 195, 213
at Vereia 373
wounded at Viazma 387, 395
Pons, Jean Louis 78
Pontier, Raymond 478, 485
Popov, Aleksandr Nikolaevich xix
Poriechie 209, 210
Portugal 32, 35, 108
Potapov, Fyodor (‘Samus’) 329
Pouget, Gen. Baron 102, 309, 446
Poznan 134–5, 138
Pradt, Abbé Dominique de, Archbishop of Malines 132–3, 164, 310, 521
Praskovia (peasant woman) 329
Pripet marshes 117
Prudhon, Pierre 4
Prudichevo 223
Prussia 123, 136, 311
alliance with France 103, 104, 122
alliance with Russia 545, 553
anti-French feeling in 105, 534
army of 83–4, 122, 125
dominance of 553
East 26, 533, 535
European wars 5, 8, 11, 26, 43, 70
French garrisons in 79–80
Grande Armée passes through 137–8, 144–5
illiberalism 553
militarism 553
nationalism 83, 105
prevaricates over war with France 52
reform and modernisation 47
rise of 8
Russian claim to 527
and Treaty of Tilsit 29–30, 32, 37, 43–4, 53
Tugendbund
48, 551
volunteer militia organised 545
war against France 545
Pugachov, Emelian 124, 200, 324
Pułtusk, Battle of 63
Pushchin, Capt. Pavel Sergeevich 211, 435
Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich 21, 328, 550
Puybusque, L.G. de 445–6
Radozhitsky, Lt I.T. 127, 153, 177, 236–7, 249, 332, 405, 433, 435, 494
Raevsky, Gen. Nikolai 214, 273, 291, 371, 484
Rapp, Gen. Jean, Comte 265, 438, 455, 464, 510
at Borodino 268, 270
horrified at state of army’s rear 310
military governor of Danzig 138
on Napoleon’s attempt at bravado 368–9
on Napoleon’s knowledge of troop numbers 309
questions advisability of advance 229
on Russian religiosity 263
Rassasna 210, 211
Razumovsky, Count 55, 61, 370
Reynier, Gen. Jean Louis 194, 195, 412, 502, 535
Ricome, Sgt Jean-Baptiste 453
Riga 140, 155, 194, 203
Rocca Romana, Prince della 504, 505
Rochechouart, Louis, Lt Comte de 479
Roeder, Capt. Franz 188, 311, 498, 508
Roguet, Gen. François 235, 276, 400, 424
rome 9, 554
Rome, King of,
see
Napoleon II
Romme, Col. 468
Roos, Dr Heinrich von 186, 283, 295, 441, 448, 531
Rosen, Gen. 444
Rosselet, Capt. Abraham 157, 320
Rossetti, Gen. Marie-Joseph 351
Rostopchin, Count Fyodor Vasilievich 203, 319, 543
accusations against commanders 317
on allegiances of common people 322
angered by decision to abandon Moscow 292
Bagration’s correspondence with 236, 237, 239, 243, 249
as Catherine’s protége 65, 113
as Chancellor 20
collaborators investigated by 548
on condition of Russian troops 316
disgust with Kutuzov 290, 293, 317
fears popular uprising 549
and firing of Moscow 300, 306–7, 576n
Governor General of Moscow 204, 205, 240–4, 247, 289, 293, 324
houses of 349, 370
Kutuzov’s correspondence with 251, 256, 286, 289
personality 240
on Russia’s international role 20, 24
suggests victory monument 527
urges Alexander to lead army 331
visits Russian headquarters 290
Roustam (Mameluke) 134, 496, 505, 556
Rudnia 209–10, 237
map 210
Rukhin, Commissar 307
Rumiantsev, Count Nikolai 24, 31, 71, 72, 122, 125, 248
Rumigny, Marie-Théodore, Count de 490
Ruschuk, Battle of 75
Russia: administration 23, 67, 212–2, 310, 330
alliance with Britain 196
alliance
with France 16, 21, 27, 29–37, 52, 61, 71, 75
anti-French sentiments in 55, 61, 63–5
censorship xvi
and Continental System 67, 69, 73, 75
cooling of relations with France 69–70
desire for war in 111–12
dominance of 552–3
draft 204, 243, 319, 528, 549
in 18th century 17
emergence as European player 8
émigrés in 52, 62, 122
European wars 5, 11, 24–7, 38, 63–4, 66, 70–1, 76
evacuation of towns and villages 233
expansion 17–20, 54, map 18–19
failed military coup 552
French culture in 62–5, 123, 200
French settlers in 541–2
and German liberation 330
historiography xvi-xxi
merchant class 320
military spending 116, 330
Napoleon’s reputation in 24, 26–7, 30
nationalism xvi, 550
nobility 61–3, 64, 112, 113, 318–20
occupied areas 318–29
patriotism 317–21
peasants 124, 136, 200–1, 321–3, 325–9, 548–51
and Poland 30
Polish territory,
see
Poland;
popular alliegances 198–200
popular reactions to invasion 200–3
propaganda 201–2, 324–5, 334
reformers 550–2
relations with Austria 52
relations with Sweden 37, 66, 104, 119, 195, 247
relations with Turkey 25, 29, 75, 103, 104, 119, 126, 196, 203
Slavophiles xvi
social upheaval threatens 322–4
war against Britain 29–30, 31
RUSSIAN ARMIES OF THE WEST 117–27
map 118
MILITARY UNITS:
First Army 117–19, 139, 174