Wallachia. Winter of 1810–1811. The Russian army, having inflicted a series of defeats on the Turks by the Danube, still couldn’t achieve their complete rout. The war continued—it demanded ever new human and material costs.
And at the very same time, on the western borders of the empire, divisions of the invincible Napoleon Bonaparte were already starting to gather by the Niemen.
The commander of a platoon of flanker skirmishers of the Starodub Dragoon Regiment, Second Lieutenant Goncharov, enjoyed in Yassy the last months of peace, quiet, and love…