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The Tale of Sergei Nepeitsyn

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The Tale of Sergei Nepeitsyn
19.99 €
One day, the writer and historian V. M. Glinka, while working with museum funds and archives, found an old engraving - a portrait of an officer with military orders on his uniform, leaning crutches against his shoulder, with the signature "Brave Colonel Nepeitsyn", and a few years later - a drawing of a prosthetic leg designed by the famous inventor I. P. Kulibin for the artillery officer Nepeitsyn. The unusual case interested the writer - this is how work began on books about the outstanding Russian officer, the hero of the Ochakov assault and the Patriotic War of 1812. On the pages of the book "The Tale of Sergei Nepeitsyn" we see Prince Grigory Potemkin and General Mikhail Kutuzov, artist Mikhail Ivanov and inventor Ivan Kulibin and many other contemporaries of the main character. The story begins with Nepeitsyn's childhood, and continues with his studies at the Artillery Engineering Corps, where Sergei studied together with the future Minister of War Alexei Arakcheev and future heroes of the Napoleonic Wars Ivan Dorokhov and Vasily Kostenetsky. After graduating from the corps, Nepeitsyn ended up in the Russo-Turkish War of 1787-1791, and his first major battle was the storming of the Ochakov fortress in 1788. As a result of a serious injury received on the walls of Ochakov, the seventeen-year-old artillery lieutenant lost his leg above the knee, but a fateful meeting with I. P. Kulibin gave him the opportunity to continue his military service. You can learn about the further fate of this extraordinary man by reading the novel "The Road of Honor".
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