The novel “Borodino” tells about five days (from the 22nd to the 27th) of August 1812. Among the main characters are not only the leaders of the troops - Napoleon, Kutuzov, Bagration, Barclay de Tolly - but also people in minor ranks: Heinrich Brandt from the Vistula Legion of the Great Army, Lieutenant Garden from the French 57th Line Regiment, Russian officers brothers The Muravyovs and a considerable number of other large and small characters. Some of them appear before the reader’s gaze one day and disappear forever, as often happens in life, and especially often in war...