A collection compiled by the St. Petersburg historian K. A. Voensky (1860-1928) and dedicated to the events of the Patriotic War of 1812 was published on the 100th anniversary of this memorable date in 1912. The collection contains articles published at different times in magazines and newspapers in the late XIX - early XX centuries.: original articles and works of the author, articles translated by him from French and Polish and equipped with introductory essays, notes and prefaces, materials extracted from archives. The publication is equipped with a large number of illustrations, some of which have been replaced by new ones due to the poor preservation of the original.