Notes of a participant in the wars with Napoleon, Russian artillery officer I.T. Radozhitsky appeared a decade after the end of the military campaigns of 1812-1815. The memoirist focuses on the daily life of an officer of the Russian imperial army during military campaigns, as well as a description of the battles of Ostrovno, Borodino, Tarutino, Maloyaroslavets, Vyazma, the battles of Bischofswerd, Bautzen, Katzbach, Leipzig, Reims, Paris. Unlike most memoirs of the time, Radozhitsky's notes were compiled from diary entries, often with accurate dating.