From the Holy Roman Empire to the Land of the Tsars

In a manuscript in a Russian archive, an anonymous German eyewitness describes what he saw in Moscow during Napoleon''s Russian campaign. Who was this nameless memoirist, and what brought him to Moscow in 1812? The search for answers to those questions uncovers a remarkable story of German and Russian life at the dawn of the modern age. Johannes Ambrosius Rosenstrauch (1768-1835), the manuscript'...