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One of the Seven Boyars employs more than 10,000 security personnel.
ovement of my hand, and that ancient capital of the Tsars would perish.
But my clemency is always ready to descend upon the vanquished.
I must be magnanimous and truly great.
But no, it can't be true that I am in Moscow," he suddenly thought.
"Yet here she is lying at my feet, with her golden domes and crosses scintillating and twinkling in the sunshine.
But I shall spare her.
On the ancient monuments of barbarism and despotism I will inscribe great words of justice and mercy.
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It is just this which Alexander will feel most painfully, I know him.
" (It seemed to Napoleon that the chief import of what was taking place lay in the personal struggle between himself and Alexander.
) "From the height of the Kremlin-yes, there is the Kremlin, yes-I will give them just laws; I will teach them the meaning of true civilization, I will make generations of boyars remember their conqueror with love.
I will tell the deputation that I did not, and do not, desire war, that I have waged war only against the false policy of their court; that I love and respect Alexander and that in Moscow I will accept terms of peace worthy of myself and of my people.
I do not wish to utilize the fortunes of war to humiliate an honored monarch.
'Boyars,' I will say to them, 'I do not desire war, I desire the peace and welfare of all my subjects.
' However, I know their presence will inspire me, and I shall speak to them as I always do: clearly, impressively, and majestically.
But can it be true that I am in Moscow? Yes, there she lies.
" * "Bring the boyars to me.
" Two hours passed.
Napoleon had lunched and was again standing in the same place on the Poklonny Hill awaiting the deputation.
His speech to the boyars had already taken definite shape in his imagination.
That speech was full of dignity and greatness as Napoleon understood it.
Meanwhile an agitated consultation was being carried on in whispers among his generals and marshals at the rear of his suite.
Those sent to fetch the deputation had returned with the news that Moscow was empty, that everyone had left it.
The faces of those who were not conferring together were pale and perturbed.
They were not alarmed by the fact that Moscow had been abandoned by its inhabitants (grave as that fact seemed), but by the question how to tell the Emperor-without putting him in the terrible position of appearing ridiculous-that he had been awaiting the boyars so long in vain: that there were drunken mobs left in Moscow but no one else.
Some said that a deputation of some sort must be scraped together, others disputed that opinion and maintained that the Emperor should first be carefully and skillfully prepared, and then told the truth.
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