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She went off with Prince Repnin." "Prince Repnin!" exclaimed the countess with horror. "The Russian ambassador!" "The same. You should have seen the despair of the king. But he was amiable even in his grief. He tried all sorts of lover's stratagems to win back the countess; he prowled around her house at night singing like a Troubadour; be wrote her bushels of letters to implore an interview.
But they were not sent toward Pskof. They marched on Narva, in the very heart of the Livonian country. The army destined to lay siege to Narva consisted of three divisions of novel formation, under the orders of three generals Golovin, Weyde, and Repnin with 10,500 Cossacks, and some irregular troops 63,520 men in all.
Their Captain is one Repnin, Prince Repnin, afterwards famous enough in those Polish Countries;" which is now the one point interesting to us in the thing. "Their Captain WAS, first, to be Lacy, old Marshal Lacy; then, failing Lacy, 'Why not General Keith? but proves to be Repnin, after much hustling and intriguing:" Repnin, not Keith, that is the interesting point.
This order of the Russian staff will inform him. His Excellency Prince Repnin, Governor-General of Saxony, having ordered that a deputy from my office be sent to Markersdorf in order to bring the said sum and deposit it with me until it is finally disposed of, my secretary, Meyerheim, is charged with this mission, and consequently will go at once to Dlarkersdorf, and, as an evidence of his authority, will present to Minister Hermann the accompanying order, and take possession of the above mentioned sum of two hundred gold napoleons.
When the latter returned to the emperor he was wounded, but the Russians, were repulsed, and Prince Repnin prisoner. A Russian division, isolated at Sokolnitz, had just surrendered; two columns had been thrown back beyond the marshes. The bridge broke under the weight of the artillery.
She was greatly applauded, above all by Prince Repnin, the Russian ambassador, who seemed a person of the greatest consequence. Prince Sulkouski kept me at table for four mortal hours, talking on every subject except those with which I happened to be acquainted.
This order of the Russian staff will inform him. His Excellency Prince Repnin, Governor-General of Saxony, having ordered that a deputy from my office be sent to Markersdorf in order to bring the said sum and deposit it with me until it is finally disposed of, my secretary, Meyerheim, is charged with this mission, and consequently will go at once to Dlarkersdorf, and, as an evidence of his authority, will present to Minister Hermann the accompanying order, and take possession of the above mentioned sum of two hundred gold napoleons.
All in vain. The liaison with Repnin was made public, and that, of course, ended the affair. "Ah, he is consoled, is he?" said the countess with curling lips. "He jests and dances, serenades and gambles, while the gory knout reeks with the noblest blood in Poland, and her noblest sons are staggering along the frozen wastes of Siberia! Oh Stanislaus! Stanislaus!
The painter Gérard, in his picture of the Battle of Austerlitz, has taken as his subject the moment when General Rapp, leaving the battle, wounded and covered in his own and the enemies' blood, is presenting to the Emperor the flags which have been captured as well as Prince Repnin, his prisoner. I was present at this memorable scene, which the painter has reproduced with remarkable exactness.
The Russians did not return to the charge; we had taken all their cannon and baggage, and Prince Repnin was among the prisoners." Thus it was that Rapp related to me this famous battle of which he was the hero, as Kellerman had been the hero of Marengo. What now remains of Austerlitz?
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