Disclosure : This site contains affiliate links to products. We may receive a commission for purchases made through these links.

Berezina

October 1812, Napoleon enters Moscow. The Russians have set fire to the city, soon it will be reduced to a pile of ash. The Emperor equivocates, decides to turn back. This is the beginning of the retreat from Russia, a page of history that has become legendary for its degree of suffering and horror, but also for the heroic acts that took place.Two hundred years later, Sylvain Tesson, accompanied by four friends (two Russians and two French), decides to follow the route of the retreat. Perched on two Soviet Ural sidecar motorcycles, they will rejoin Paris from Moscow, guided only by the spectres of the two hundred thousand soldiers who died through cold, starvation, and in battle. Twenty five hundred miles travelled in a wild escapade to salute the ghosts of history, across the white plains of Russia.

Related Products:

Moscow Stories Walking the Retreat: The March to the Marne: 1914 Revisited Afgantsy, The Russians in Afghanistan 1979-89 Russia`s War 1941-1945 Russia Against Napoleon: The Battle for Europe, 1807 to 1814 The Long Hangover: Putin`s New Russia and the Ghosts of the Past The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia Moscow at Midnight Russia, a Traveller`s History Atlas of Russian History Discovering The Moscow Countryside Russia -Concise History Russian Revolution: Hope, Tragedy, Myths Russia and the Neighbouring Countries Wall Map Russia and the Russians: From Earliest Times to the Present Spies and Commissars The Apartment: A Century of Russian History The Russia Reader: History, Culture, Politics Vodka Politics: Alcohol, Autocracy, and the Secret History of the Russian State Russia – A 1000-Year Chronicle of the Wild East A History of Russia Gulag: A History of the Soviet Camps Moscow Calling: Memoirs of a Foreign Correspondent The Hunt for Red October Paris: The Secret History Midnight in Siberia: A Train Journey into the Heart of Russia Default ThumbnailRoad Atlas of Russia (from Moscow to Ukraine) The Secret Twenties: British Intelligence, the Russians and the Jazz Age The Russia House Cinema of Russia & the Former Soviet Union The American Lover Moscow, December 25, 1991 Five Hundred Buildings of Paris Deception: Spies, Lies and How Russia Dupes the West Imagine Moscow: Architecture, Propaganda, Revolution Moscow Noir Borderland: A Journey Through the History of Ukraine Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern Front: An Untold Story of World War II The Invention of Russia: The Journey from Gorbachev`s Freedom to Putin`s War Night Of Stone