15

Conferences being appointed at Tilsit, I was named

with the l-st battalion of Preobrajensky guards to

serve . as а body guard to the Emperor Alexander at

Tilsit in (he midst of the French army. Неге we re-

mained 12 days during negociations. I saw the етре-

ror Napoleon every day and was present at several

revews 0f his guards and the corps of marshal Da-

voust. Реасе being concluded, we marched home

through part 0f Lithuania, Curland and Livonia and

arrived at Petersbourgh about September.

The whole 0f the year 10, I passed at Peters-

bourgh doing duty as colonel in the Guards, the only

year from 183 to 1815 that I passed in реасе.

In 18(Ю I was appointed to the command 0f the

regiment 0f infantry of Narva, then serving against

the Turks, and joined the army under prince Bagra-

tion оп the right bank 0f the Danube; towards the

end of the same year in December, was with ту

regiment under general Zass in his сатр near Ма-

tchine, and in January 1810 we marched to our win-

ter-quarters, those of ту regiment being at Fokschany.

Soon after prince Bagration wus superseded in

his command by general count kamensky, who had

just then gloriously fnished the war with Sweden;

about the end 0f March operations began, and was

ordered to march to the left flank 0f the army under

the command of count Serge kamensky, brother to

our general in chief. We passed the Danube оп the

7-th of April, marched through the province of ВаЬа-

dagh, passed the lines 0f karassou оп the 14-th of

Мау, and оп the 22-d of the same month we took by

assault in the middle 0f the day the town 0f Bazar-