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Updated: May 13, 2025
He hastily descended the northern staircase, famous for the massacre of the Strelitzes, and requested to be conducted out of the city, to the distance of a league on the road to St. Petersburg, towards the imperial palace of Petrowski. But we were besieged by an ocean of fire, which blocked up all the gates of the citadel, and frustrated our first attempts to escape.
To escape from this vast region of desolation, it was farther necessary to pass a long convoy of powder which was defiling amid the fire. This was not the least of his dangers, but it was the last, and by nightfall he arrived at Petrowski. The next morning, the 17th of September, Napoleon cast his first look towards Moscow, hoping to see that the conflagration had subsided.
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