About the book: 2018 / The book by historian Sergei Dybov is dedicated to the famous raid of a flying detachment under the command of Colonel Fyodor Geismar along the French rear in 1814. Having united with local rebels under the command of Louis Frouschard, the detachment carried out a raid across northern France, captured several cities and fortresses and thwarted the advance of the French army - the Allied army entered Paris. From a book written based on foreign and domestic sources, including materials from foreign archives , the reader will also learn how the fates of the participants in those events developed, which of them became the prototype of Baron Munchausen, and why the rescue of Alexander I’s cousin, Catherine of Württemberg, then Queen of Westphalia, cost Colonel Geismar his rank of general.