"A pleasant recollection of the labors and dangers incurred by the Russians in the famous battles of recent years prompted me to express my thoughts on paper, so that it would be more convenient to keep them for myself and for my good colleagues," wrote Andrei Fedoseevich Raevsky, a talented poet, brother of the famous Decembrist Vladimir Fedoseevich Raevsky about his book "Memories." This is an emotional story about the foreign campaigns of the Russian army of 1813-1814. The narrative is not a chronicle of hostilities, but rather a personal diary of the author, a participant in the events.