The Napoleonic Wars were so large, massive, long and bloody that they deserve the title of the First World War. In 1812, virtually all of continental Europe went on a campaign against Russia, and the four-day general battle near Leipzig is not in vain called the "Battle of the Peoples," which had never before suffered such losses - a total of more than a million killed and wounded in ten years. And since it was the Russian army that was the "core and main support, the backbone" of the anti-Napoleonic coalition (which even such a Russian hater as Engels recognized), the lion's share of the tests fell to the Russian soldier, who again proved his incredible resilience - blood, pain, inhuman suffering only strengthened his fighting spirit, and in the spring of 1814 our victorious troops took Paris...