A few days before the battleofBorodino, Nikolay received the sums of money and official warrants required, and, sending some hussars on before him, he drove with posting-horses to Voronezh.
在波罗底诺战役前几天,尼古拉领到经费和文件,派出一个骠骑兵先行,嗣后他乘驿马到沃罗涅日去了。
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THE TERRIBLE NEWS of the battleofBorodino, of our losses in killed and wounded, and the even more terrible news of the loss of Moscow reached Voronezh in the middle of September.