The book of the historian Sergei Dybov is dedicated to the famous raid of a flying detachment under the command of Colonel Fyodor Geismar on the French rear in 1814. Allied with local rebels under Louis Frouchard, the unit raided northern France, captured several cities and fortresses and thwarted the offensive of the French army - the Allied army entered Paris. From the book, written based on foreign and domestic sources, including materials from foreign archives, the reader will also find out how the fate of the participants in those events developed, which of them became the prototype of Baron Munchausen and why the salvation of cousin Alexander I - Catherine of Württemberg, then Queen of Westphalia, cost Colonel Geismar the rank of general.