My Past and Thoughts
Translated by Constance Garnett
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Chapter 1 My Nurse and the Grande Armée—The Fire of Moscow—My Father with Napoleon—General Ilovaisky—Travelling with the French Prisoners—The Patriotism of C. Calot—The Common Management of the Property—Dividing it—The Senator
NURSERY & UNIVERSITY (1812–1835)
‘When memories of the past return And the old road again we tread, Slowly the passions of old days Come back to life within the soul; Old griefs and joys are here unchanged, Again the once familiar thrill Stirs echoes in the troubled heart; And for remembered woes we sigh.’
Ogaryov: Humorous Verse.
My Nurse and the Grande Armée—The Fire of Moscow—My Father with Napoleon—General Ilovaisky—Travelling with the French Prisoners—The Patriotism of C. Calot—The Common Management of the Property—Dividing it—The Senator
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- The title page and opening pages before chapter 1, in 2 places
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