Our reading of Volume IV opens in St. Petersburg, hundreds of miles from Moscow and fully separated from the burning and pillaging happening there. We’re getting a glimpse of what life is like for the people not directly affected by Napoleon’s long march. And I couldn’t help but think of that classic sub-genre of pop culture known as the dangerous liais…
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