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Before leaving Moscow, Count Rostopchin supposedly gave orders to the head of police (and released convicts) to have the Kremlin and major public buildings (including churches and monasteries) set on fire. During the following days, the fires spread. According to Germaine de Staël, who left the city a few weeks before Napoleon arrived, and afterward corresponded with Kutuzov, it was ...
The Fire of Moscow occurred on 24 May 1571, when the Crimean army [7] (c. 40,000 horsemen [4]) led by the khan of Crimea Devlet I Giray, bypassed the Serpukhov defensive fortifications on the Oka River, crossed the Ugra River into the Moscow suburbs, and rounded the flank of the 36,000–40,000 men [4] of the Russian army.
The peasants near Moscow, of course, are the most idle and quick-witted, but the most depraved and greedy in all of Russia, assured of the enemy's exit from Moscow and relying on the turmoil of our entry, arrived on carts to capture the unlawed, but Count Benckendorf calculated differently and ordered to be loaded onto their carts and carrion ...
The fire swept into the Kremlin and blew up the powder stores in several of the Kremlin's towers. [1] The fire began on 24 June, several months after Ivan IV, better known as "Ivan the Terrible," was officially crowned as first tsar of all Russia. The fire displaced about 80,000 people and killed about 2,700 to 3,700 people (not including ...
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Camouflage-clad gunmen opened fire with automatic weapons at concertgoers near Moscow on Friday, killing at least 60 people and injuring 145 in an attack claimed by Islamic State ...
A series of unusual fires and explosions have occurred in Russia since the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, [1] [2] which have not been formally explained. [3] There have been many notable arson attacks on military recruitment offices in Russia since the beginning of the war, [4] and there has been speculation that some of the fires or explosions have been the result of sabotage efforts ...
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Gunmen opened fire at a synagogue, an Orthodox church and a police post in attacks across two cities in Russia's North Caucasus region of Dagestan on Sunday, killing an Orthodox ...
MOSCOW (Reuters) -A fire broke out on Monday at the Uralmash factory, a large heavy industry enterprise in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg, Russia's emergencies ministry said, adding hours later ...