Аннотация: The Fairy Tale about Kutuzov and the Tarutino Maneuver of 1812
The Fairy Tale about Kutuzov and the Tarutino Maneuver of 1812
The village of Tarutino.
Kutuzov leafs through a book by Henri Troyat about Alexander I.
Adjutant enters Kutuzov's room.
'Intercepted materials !!!'
Kutuzov began viewing the delivered materials. "The internet-duce ... informs about the" atrocities "of the Cossacks ..."
Kutuzov set aside the writings of the internet-duce. "He strangled freedom of speech and press?" 'Let him now read the writings of the internet-duce and wait for the boyars ...'
Kutuzov continued to read a book by Henri Troyat about Alexander I.
"Napoleon ... "... Go and bring the boyars to me". But there are no boyars in Russia since the time of Peter the Great ..."
"Let he wait for the boyars ... Meanwhile, Berezina will slightly freeze ... But not a much ..." "Without atrocities - it is better."
Kutuzov continued to browse the book by Troyat.
'The Swedish Crown Prince Bernadotte gives the tsar practical advice on how best to wage war on the Great Army, in which he himself one of the brilliant marshals was not so long ago. 'It necessary,' he [Bernadotte] writes on April 24, 'to avoid large battles, to attack the flanks, to force the French to divide the army into small units and to exhaust them with marches and counter-marches, - to force them to do what is most unpleasant for the French soldiers, and so that it was easier to beat them. And let there be more and more Cossack units around '.
Kutuzov continued to glance through the book by Henri Troyat ...
'... On the Ryazan road leading east, he [Kutuzov] suddenly turns abruptly towards the old Kaluga road and after a few days, having made a skillful' flank march ', leads the troops to the village of Tarutino, located at south from Moscow, where he camps. In the Tarutino camp, Kutuzov receives the necessary army supplies and ammunition from the rich central provinces, he replenishes the regiments, and in the vicinity of Moscow, Cossack patrols intercept food convoys, preventing the French from capturing of them ... '
'The dialectic of maneuver ...', - Kutuzov turns the page. - 'The retreat it's the offensive ...'
October 23, 2019 20:59
Translation from Russian into English: October 25, 2019 19:53.
Владимир Владимирович Залесский 'Сказка о Кутузове и Тарутинском манёвре 1812 года'.