two years later russian troops led by the chieftain platov approached. napoleon dreaded the backlash the field the russians would do to paris the friendship done to moscow. feet. this ground one hundred twenty kilometers from moscow is almost as familiar to the french as it is to the russians the battlefield of. the cossacks race across the field where some one hundred thousand people died in a single day over forty thousand russians and nearly sixty thousand frenchmen. this is what an attack by the men of celebrated russian chieftain plus just might have looked like. the russians launched an assault to gain the breathing space they needed to bring up there was a. man one too alice to regroup by overwhelming the french on the left flank. because the heading. the headquarters. of russian. defense. and commemorates those events. he described. of his fifty battles he fails to achieve clear superiority even the french are confident that. russia was victorious. how you look at it there were all sorts of situations but at the end of the day. patriotic place in