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Updated: June 9, 2025
Although the retreat from Moscow was a bloody catastrophe for Napoleon, it was also glorious for him and the troops who were at Krasnoi and the Beresina, because the skeleton of the army was saved, when not a single man should have returned. In this ever-memorable event both parties covered themselves with glory.
The farther they went from the little village on the Beresina the more courage the Dream gave to them. On and on went the train, the wheels singing the song of the road. Fellow travelers asked them where they were going. "To America," Ivan would answer. "To America?" they would cry. "May the little saints guide you. It is a long way, and you will be lonely."
This hurricane of human beings, the flux and reflux of living bodies, had the effect of leaving for a few short moments the whole bank of the Beresina deserted. The multitude were surging to the plain. If a few men rushed to the river, it was less in the hope of reaching the other bank, which to them was France, than to rush from the horrors of Siberia. Despair proved an aegis to some bold hearts.
Napoleon at Bay The Enemy at Fault The Crossing of the Beresina The Carnage End of the Tragedy Napoleon's Departure The Remnants of the Army at Vilna The Russian Generals Napoleon's Journey Malet's Conspiracy The Emperor's Anxiety The State of France Affairs in Spain. The situation of the French was desperate indeed.
The collapse of Austria and the defeat of the Marne did not deprive her of the offensive, and the weight of her initial blow sufficed to hold her western foes incapable of effective action, while she reorganized Austrian resources, put new armies in the field, and won the great battles in the Russian field, which carried her advance to the Beresina and the Dvina.
Napoleon quits Moscow Battles of Vincovo and Malo-Yaraslovetz Retreat on Verreia and Smolensko Repeated Defeats and Sufferings of the French Smolensko Krasnoi Passage of the Beresina Smorgonie Napoleon quits the Army his arrival at Warsaw at Dresden in Paris.
The following year, Marcel spread over the level plane of his picture a layer of white representing snow, planted a pine-tree in one corner, and clothing an Egyptian as a grenadier of the Imperial Guard, rechristened the painting the "Passage of the Beresina."
I would have given a great deal to have had with me my Polish servant Lorentz to act as interpreter, but the coward had remained behind as soon as there was any fighting. So we had to comb the town until we eventually came to the Beresina.
Thousands of soldiers froze to death. In crossing the Beresina River thousands more drowned.
It is the same in nature; every species has its bridge of Beresina; it has to fight its way through and struggle with other species; and when well nigh overpowered, it may be that the smallest chance, something in its colour, perhaps the minutest circumstance will turn the scale one way or the other.
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