After Napoleon. Russian Army in France, 1815 - 1818. Bolt V.S.

According to the terms of the Paris Peace Treaty of 1815, concluded after the completion of the Napoleonic Wars, the Russian corps of Count M. S. Vorontsov was part of the Union Army, stationed in the eastern and north-eastern regions of France as a guarantor of a new world order. For three years, about thirty thousand Russian troops were forced to adapt to a cultural and linguistic space for them, trying to avoid conflicts with the civilian population of the country, against which they recently waged a fierce war.

The author of the book offers readers to a detailed history of the Russian occupation of France in 1815-1818, describing the material and legal conditions of the stay of Russian military personnel in this country, the reaction of the local population and the authorities to the need to get along with uninvited "guests", The influence of these circumstances on the daily behavior of soldiers and officers and on discipline in the corps.