The strange encrypted letter in which Napoleon announced that he was going to “blow up the Kremlin”

by time news

The French emperor left the current headquarters of President Vladimir Putin on October 19, 1812, after living in it for a month, with the order that 180 tons of explosives be placed in the crypts of the historic building.

Montage of the coded letter signed by Napoleon, dated October 20, 1812, with a picture of the Emperor AP-ABC

On the sunny afternoon of September 14, 1812, the ‘Grande Armée’ finally reached the suburbs of Moscow. Napoleon went up the hill to see the spectacle. “Here it is, finally! It was about time », he exclaimed before addressing the Kremlin to…

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