Metternich: All In All, A 100% Successful Trip.

Metternich: All in all, a 100% successful trip.

Schwarzenberg: We lost Blücher and Wellington along the way.

Metternich: As I said. All in all, a 100% successful trip!

I love flower paintings very much, but I don't like painting flowers.

Well, Fouché ✨🪷

So, it’s the 210th anniversary of the War of 1812 and the Battle of Borodino!

The annual reconstruction this year was absolutely superb in terms of it’s heart-fullness and professionalism. So much effort was put into the preparation and final performance. I adore the work of historical reconstructors with all my heart and they’ve surpassed themselves, undeniably.

Today I’d love to show you another small compilation of photos that depicts all the colours of the jubilee Borodino! ❤️💙💚💛

And here’s another piece of an enormous cake that was the main reconstruction few days ago - a cavalry scramble between various regiments of Russian and French sides!

It was quite hard to download but I hope its beauty redeems it all. ✨

Schwarzenberg: Are you a vegetarian?

Wellington: I’m a Gemini.

Metternich: That’s not what he meant. And you’re wrong, you’re a Taurus.

Blücher: I thought he was Irish?

It’s that breathtaking time of the year ~

Last four days of our lives - my own and my dear friends - were the most spectacular and memorable for the whole year, without a doubt. The Borodino fields were as lively as they had been many years ago… However, inadequate ambitions, hatred and exhaustion are replaced nowadays with remembrance, friendship, affection, mutual respect and appreciation. 🕊

Being there as one of the participants is a breathtaking experience. Especially for the first time! The passion and fun all those men and women are having while recreating the events from the past are unbelievably inspiring. Thus, I’m so glad to be able to participate directly in the historical reconstruction of the Napoleonic era which I’ve been loving with all my heart for six long years straight.

Waking up from that miraculous dream to the sounds of Tchaikovsky’s “1812 Overture”, waiting for my dear friends to expand vastly on the subject and preparing some illustrative materials from the point of view of a random civilian at the beginning of the 19th century… 🤫