“The pleasant memory of the labors and dangers suffered by the Russians in the famous battles of recent years prompted me to put my thoughts on paper, so that it would be all the more convenient to preserve them for myself and for my good colleagues,” wrote Andrei Fedoseevich Raevsky, a talented poet, brother the famous Decembrist Vladimir Fedoseevich Raevsky about his book “Memoirs”. This is an emotional story about the foreign campaigns of the Russian army in 1813–1814. The narrative is not a chronicle of military operations, but rather a personal diary of the author, a participant in the events. The book vividly conveys the mood of the era and will be of interest to a wide range of readers and specialists.