many historians believe that it was the battle under tarutina that prompted napoleon to withdraw from moscow, because the french retreat towards kaluga began literally the next day. on october 18, 1907, the second hague conference completed its work, just like the first one was convened at the initiative of russia, our delegation was headed by ambassador alexander nelidov, the instructions given to him were quoted as saying the convening of the second peace conference was inspired by the conviction that the russian government, which belonged to in the matter of propagating the ideas of international peace, should not let go of its further direction thanks to the perseverance of russian diplomacy in the conference participated 44 states power europe latin america japan and siam adopted 13 conventions including, as a peaceful solution to international clashes on the opening of hostilities, and the laws and customs of land war. this was a big step forward in the development of international humanitarian law, almost all the conventions that are in force have pledged to comply with them. t