STC357900 Napoleon watching the Fire of Moscow, illustration from \'Hutchinsons History of the Nations\', c.1910 (colour litho) by Vereshchagin, Nikolai Stepanovich (1770-c.1813); Private Collection; (add.info.: The 1812 Fire of Moscow broke out on September 14, 1812 in Moscow on the day when Russian troops and most residents abandoned the city and Napoleon\'s vanguard troops entered the city following the Battle of Borodino; The fire raged until September 18, destroying an estimated three-quarters of Moscow; Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821);); The Stapleton Collection; Russian, out of copyright.