War and Peace.
Sometime ago I went with a friend to “War and Peace” opera by Prokofiev in Mariinsky Theatre. To tell the truth, I don’t understand operas and it was first experience of this sort. But after the opera strange question came to my mind. What Napoleon forgot in Moscow? The capital of country was Saint Petersburg. The Emperor was there, government was there. Also St. Petersburg much closer to France that Moscow. With this result he can have taken some other old city in Russian Empire. What is he hoped for?
I understand, that Napoleon was intelligent person and had some reasonable purposes. But at the first look it seem strange for me.
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War and Peace.
Sometime ago I went with a friend to the “War and Peace” opera by Prokofiev in at the Mariinsky Theatre. To tell the truth, I don’t understand operas and it was my first experience of this sort. But after the opera, a strange question came to my mind. What did Napoleon forget in Moscow? The capital of the country was Saint Petersburg. The Emperor was there, the government was there. Also St. Petersburg is much closer to France than Moscow. With this result he can could have taken some other old city in the Russian Empire. What is it that he hoped for? /What did he hope for?I understand that Napoleon was an intelligent person and had some reasonable purposes. But at the first look it seems strange for to me. ("At first" or you can write "at first glance".)
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