About the book: 2015 / “Own Notes” of the Russian military leader Nikolai Nikolayevich Muravyov (1794–1866) is a unique historical source in terms of the volume and breadth of the events described. This edition publishes their first part, dedicated to the time when the author, as an officer of His Majesty’s Retinue as a quartermaster, participated in the main battles of the Patriotic War of 1812 and the Foreign Campaign of the Russian Army of 1813–1814. By the completeness of the pictures of the war, by the wealth of information about the military - the marching life of the Russian army, in their impeccable truthfulness and literary completeness, the notes of N. N. Muravyov are one of the most noticeable phenomena in Russian memoir literature dedicated to the era of 1812.