To understand why Napoleon was waiting for the keys to the Kremlin as an offering from the defeated people, but did not take them himself, it is to highlight the events before September 2, 1812.
at an auction in Fontainebleau for 187,000 euros was sold to the auction with a unique letter in 1812.It is dated the twentieth of October.Its author - Napoleon, and he wrote about the intention to blow up the Kremlin.But a month ago, he could not imagine, after so many victories in Europe, Russian savages not only put an end to his triumphant wars, but for the sake of victory, even the holy capital will not regret.Moscow was burned, so that only the emperor and left to blow up the Kremlin survived the fire.But why he made that decision when his army had already left the dead city and the inevitability of defeat was obvious?
Maybe because it never had the chance to experience it in her hands sweet gravity hefty keys to the Kremlin?But it's more like an act in retaliation.Undignified for the emperor with pretensions to world crown.Just the Kremlin for it - this is the last straw for which a drowning man grabs.He believed that, leaving Russia without a heart, ie,without the Kremlin, thus breaking the Russian spirit, he is still able to subjugate the barbarian country and to return to France once again a winner.
Why exceptionally intelligent man and a brilliant military leader so easily succumbed to self-deception?And why Napoleon was waiting for the keys to the Kremlin six weeks before?For the same reason that so naive and self-satisfaction he expected Russian delegation is not just the keys, but with bread and salt and a traditional Russian bow.He wanted not just humility vanquished, he had accepted.
It was the second self-deception.No one except the crows fly from all sides into place conflagration.But the raven tell that the city expects Napoleon could not.A delegation had not appeared.But why Napoleon was waiting for the keys to the Kremlin and the Russian did not bring them?That is the significance for the Russian had Poklonnaya Hill, he explains why.Napoleon was waiting for the keys to the Kremlin there.But more wrong place it could not recommend even a Russian spy.Mountain Name chance.Since ancient times it was worshiped as a holy dwelling place of the gods.To come here with a bow to Napoleon would be to betray not a city, not a country, and faith, and to recognize the usurper almost a god.Russian is no blasphemy in the head could not come.
It may not be the only explanation as to why Napoleon was waiting for the keys to the Kremlin, but did not wait.This man remembered not only as a lost war commander and exiled Emperor.He entered into eternity as a great personality, able to make history and change its course.And if I may say so, then the brand "Napoleon" France does not have the exclusive right today.There is no country where there would be at least one bust of Napoleon.Fans of historical reconstruction again and again to recreate scenes of battles, which have been a lot of this ruler.
Napoleonic mask of death continue to appear in museums around the world.Bronze, copper, gypsum ... Most of them questionable authenticity.And apparently they sometimes differ not only in small details.For museum staff, historians this unfortunate phenomenon.On the other hand, is eloquent testimony to the fact that the role of Napoleon's history is enormous, he still managed to conquer the world.Not geographically, not politically, but in people's minds.It is not forgotten, because his name has become a common noun meaning.And it is unlikely to be found in the history of mankind another such person, whose great name did not diminish, even with a great slaughter, similar to that suffered in the Russian Napoleon.
