paleon was then restored and became one of the truly most aristocratic districts of moscow and it hasalready been restored in stone. so, in one of the alleys here behind this house is spasopeskovsky lane, where the church of the savior on the sands stands, built in 1711. and right there behind this church in a small courtyard posilevich. polenov painted his picture a wonderful picture painted in 1878. moscow courtyard. how impossible it is to imagine what was written a 10 -minute walk from the kremlin is just as impossible to imagine imagine let's say. uh, knee condition and opportunity. immerse yourself in this life of this moscow courtyard today, being here, if we listen to what is happening here, if we look at what is happening here and imagine that literally 20 meters from here, 100 years ago, there was that same moscow courtyard. this incompatibility will be absolutely striking. look at this landscape. this is a landscape of the arbat at the end of the 20th century. many buildings of this arbat have remained the same in the same form in which they were built in the past. century.

napoleon then the polyonic wars then the paleonic wars were very important right and they involved huge armies far beyond the scale of wars in the 17th and 16th century. these are gigantic armies. involving often conscripts or volunteers which were of a scale that what had not been seen, you know, since roman times perhaps and perhaps never seen before the huge scale and maybe the only thing just to compare them with me, maybe some of the struggles in asia particularly those involving the chinese empire and say the mongols and one of the bugaboos of that period of the napoleonic war was the interchangeability of parts. for example, even with the early steam engine people took for granted that there would be a lot of final fitting parts didn't always fit together nails were not uniform. people often had the machine and they had to sort of bang it together. even if it's sort of work. they had to constantly be tinkering with it to get it to work all the time. we're so used to cars that rarely break down today that we forget that even as late as the 60s and 70s most cars were really unrelia