Tanais Gallery
Vasily Vereshchagin. The Night Bivouac of the Great Army.
1896-1897.
Oil on canvas.
The State Historical Museum, Moscow, Russia.
Napoleon in Russia
The night, pitch-dark wither night covered all the country around. It was just a blind folly to continue moving. Soldiers stopped and stayed overnight just in an open field. They laid their torn cloaks under themsevles, covered up with anything they could and fell asleep.
And the night storm was wailing and rumbling over their heads, the thick snow was drifting huge snow-drifts and threatened to bury the Great Army under them...
In job above pictures from Domestic war the artist based not only on a documentary material of that epoch, but also on own impressions gathered in wars, in which he took part. Therefore pictures about 1812 are remarkable by the large vital truth and persuasiveness.
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