Tag: Vilna
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A letter of General Van Hogendorp in Russia …
The Dutch general Van Hogendorp, aide-de-camp to the Emperor, appointed governor-general of Lithuania, recounts to the latter in this letter dated 22 November 1812, the measures he took on the news of the capture of Minsk. This event ‘caused a great sensation and alarm in Vilna’. Many fugitives, soldiers and peasants had arrived in large…