Authors: Adam Zamoyski
maps 333, 372
Viazemsky, Prince Piotr Andreevich 206, 285, 335, 528, 547
Viazma 175, 234, 235, 240, 381, 383, 386, 389, 405, 406
Victor, Marshal Claude, Duc de Bellune 309, 310, 354, 406, 407, 412, 438, 463, 476–7, 495
Vienna, Treaty of 52
Vigel, Filip F. 200, 323
Vigny, Alfred de 555
Vilia river 144, 154, 158
maps 167, 413
Vilna 117, 164, 176, 193, 305, 310, 338, 460
Alexander in 119, 121–3, 126–7, 151–2
Alexander’s flight from 154, 172
celebrations in 501
citizens evacuate 501–2, 507
French abandon 511–12, 534
as French base 352, 354
French retreat towards 491–3, 500, 501
French return to 504, 508–10
French wounded and sick left in 515, 528–9, 592–3n
Napoleon in 154–5, 174, 176, 507
Napoleon’s campaign plan for 131, 139, 144
rations stockpiled in 502, 591n
in Russian hands 160, 515, 525, 528
Russian withdrawal 152
support for Napoleon in 164
Vimiero, Battle of 35
Vinkovo 348, 362, 364, 368, 374, 402, 432, 433
Vionnet de Maringoné, Major Louis Joseph 340, 346, 395, 509, 516
Vistula river 28, 83
Vitebsk 305, 354
abandoned by Barclay 180–1, 246
battle dispositions 178–80, map 181
French advance towards 176, 190
French garrison 309
French military governor of 446
French retreat towards 380
as French winter quarters 407
Napoleon in 193, 194–5, 203
retaken by Russians 409, 411
Russians fall back on 171
Vittoria, Battle of 545
Voensky, Konstantin Adamovich xix
Voinov, Gen. 472
Volhynia 194
Volkonsky, Prince Dmitri Mikhailovich 316, 331
Volkonsky, Prince Piotr 361, 381
Volkonsky, Prince Sergei Grigorievich 63, 111, 115, 316, 320–1, 328
Volkova, Maria A. 203, 324
Volokolamsk 354
map 333
Voltaire 36, 92
Vop river 409–11, 416, 489
Voronenko, Police Supt. 300
Voronovo 348, 349, 362
Vorontsov, Prince M.S. 268, 288
Vossler, Lt Heinrich A. 262, 483, 485
Wachsmuth, Lt I.I. 404–5
Wagram, Battle of 38, 52
Walewska, Countess Maria 59fn, 522
Wallachia 37, 104
Walter, Jakob 102, 186, 190, 394, 401
Warsaw (city) 355–6, 521–2, 535, 541
Warsaw, Grand Duchy of 11, 30, 32, 66, 107
casualties 540
conflict of interest over 58–60, 65, 76
cossacks in 535
French ambassador 132–3
French troops in 37, 79
Grande Armée in 83, 101, 130, 135–7
hardship in 136
Jérôme Bonaparte in 133
Legion of the Vistula 60, 85
mobilisation 80, 85
Napoleon in 134–5, 161
Napoleon’s plans for 132, 160
Russian army withdraws from 154–5
Russian claim to 527
Russian invasion threat 68–72, 73–5, 80
Waterloo, Battle of 546
Wedel, Lt Count von 84–5, 95
Weimar 48, 524
Wellington, Duke of 54, 124, 125, 235, 261, 338, 545, 546
Westphalia, Kingdom of 45, 50, 52, 80, 83
Principal Minister of 86
Queen of 109
Westphalia, Treaty of (1648) 8
Widemann, Capt. Baron von 489
Wieland, Christoph Martin 48
Wilhelm I. German Emperor 553
Wilhelm, Prince of Baden 310, 474, 487, 498, 511
Wille, Jacob Vasilievich 318
Wilson, Gen. Sir Robert: on abandoning of Smolensk 219
on Alexander’s opinion of Kutuzov 526
on Barclay 223
on cannibalism 484
on ill-treatment of prisoners 403, 404
on Kutuzov’s motives 435
on Maloyaroslavets 372–3
on Ney’s battle with Miloradovich 426
on pet dogs 490
poor opinion of Kutuzov 332, 361, 388
relations with senior officers 248, 317
on respect of French troops for Napoleon 456
urges action against French 375, 422
whispering campaign against Alexander 31
Wintzingerode, Gen. Ferdinand von 305, 316, 328, 354, 377–8
Wittgenstein, Gen. Peter von 305, 354, 412
in Alexander’s masterplan 359
at Berezina 474, 476, 478, 588n
degeneration of army of 495
disobeys orders 463, 494
Napoleon considers attack on 460
news of victory of 203
Oudinot attacks and pursues 155, 194
at Polotsk 406
in pursuit of French retreat 433, 436–7, 438, 458, 460, 470
pushed back from Polotsk 308
spring campaign 545
treatment of prisoners 402
Wolzogen, Baron Ludwig von 122, 125, 237, 285
Wrede, Gen. Carl Philipp 308, 502, 510, 537, 546
Württemberg 11, 80
Crown Prince of 188
Würzburg 108
Grand Duke of 109
Wybicki, Józef 164
Wylkowyszki 146
Yakovlev, Ivan Alekseevich 306
Yakubovo 194, 203
Yelnia 374, 377, 407, 409
map 382
Yermolov, Col. Aleksei Petrovich 224, 292, 525
angers Kutuzov 362
appointed chief of staff 169
attitude to suspected spies 238
at Borodino 274
on destruction of Smolensk 237
on indiscipline of French 325
at Kutuzov’s headquarters 290–1
on Kutuzov’s motives 435
Kutuzov advises prudence 436
loathing of Konovnitsin 360, 362
personality 169
on relations between Barclay and Bagration 207
treatment of prisoners 402–3, 446
urges offensive 291, 362
Yorck von Wartenburg, Gen. Hans David 534–5, 544, 545
Yvan, Dr 2, 420
Zajaczek, Gen. Józef 472, 489
Zakrent 151
Zaluski, Capt. Józef 394, 493
Zamosc 83
Zhilin, P.A. xx
Ziembin 463, 465, 494
Ziethen, Col. 86
Zotov, Lt 313, 499
Adam Zamoyski was born in New York but has spent most of his life in England. He was educated at Downside and The Queen’s College, Oxford. A freelance historian with a singular command of languages, he has written a bestselling history of Poland, as well as two books of military history and three biographies. His most recent book is
Holy Madness: Romantics, Patriots and Revolutionaries, 1776–1871
.
He lives in London and is married to the painter Emma Sergeant.
‘Elegantly delivers gripping storytelling, bold revisionism,
and poignant suffering’
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ONTEFIORE,
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Daily Mail
‘An uncommonly vivid narrative of Bonaparte’s disastrous Russian campaign’
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‘An epic account’
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‘Zamoyski is such an economical and elegant writer …
This is a great book’
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‘Vividly described. No historian has dug
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‘A gripping tale’
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From the reviews of
1812:
‘An utterly admirable book. It benefits from a far wider range of sources (including Russian and Polish) than previous works, and combines clarity of thought and prose with a strong narrative drive’
Antony Beevor,
Daily Telegraph
‘Zamoyski’s lucid, understated style stands in vivid contrast to turbulent, overblown events. The carnage at Borodino, not equalled until the first day of the Somme, is meticulously researched and retold through eye-witness experiences … It is a great, affecting story. It has found its best chronicler … Zamoyski has constructed a triumph of historical writing’
Glasgow Herald
‘A gripping tale. Mr Zamoyski has trawled the memoirs and military histories to create a mosaic of personal accounts and statistics. His elegant prose rarely falters’
Economist
‘The best non-fiction version to be written so far … As well as mastering the huge geopolitical and strategic issues at stake in the campaign, Zamoyski is brilliant at explaining what it must have been like to be a foot soldier … The use of first-hand accounts brings home the horror’
Mail on Sunday
‘It is hard to believe a better book will ever be written on this subject. The author has consulted many original documents, letters and diaries. His account is so vivid that you feel the chill and can almost see the suffering. If Count Zamoyski does not win every literary prize going with this magnificent and utterly readable work of scholarship, then there is no justice’
Simon Heffer,
Country Life
‘We all know about Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow. Read this book and you will feel that you have as good as lived it … A slice of narrative history which reads as compellingly as the best fiction’
Ireland on Sunday
‘Zamoyski has re-examined the evidence and created a modern account that takes a giant step closer to how it really was … Zamoyski elegantly delivers gripping storytelling, bold revisionism, and poignant suffering’
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Scotsman
‘An astounding recreation. Particularly moving are the many personal testimonies on which much of it is based … One of the most extraordinary narrations I have read, with many of the attributes of a great painting’
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1812
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Stalingrad
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CHOPIN: A BIOGRAPHY
THE BATTLE FOR THE MARCHLANDS
PADEREWSKI
THE POLISH WAY
THE LAST KING OF POLAND
THE FORGOTTEN FEW
HOLY MADNESS; ROMANTIGS, PATRIOTS
AND REVOLUTIONARIES
, 1776–1871
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