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Woldemar Von Löwenstern: Memoirs of a Livonian from the Years 1790 to 1815
Woldemar Von Löwenstern: Memoirs of a Livonian from the Years 1790 to 1815
Woldemar Von Löwenstern: Memoirs of a Livonian from the Years 1790 to 1815
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Woldemar von Löwenstern, a Baltic German Russian Cavalry officer, states in the course of his memoirs, “I am not writing a history of the war…that is sufficiently known from every history of the war of 1812.” In his memoirs he is reliving his own personal successes, frustrations, failures, and tragedies from 1790 to 1815, and desires his readers to join him on his journey, as he prepares for cavalry service, leaves that service, marries and runs estates in Estonia, but then takes his ill wife to Vienna seeking a cure, where she dies as Napoleon is invading the city. He rejoins the Russian army and at one point is sent to Moscow. When he arrives there, he finds his dispatch is an order for his arrest. His deportment saves him so he returns to the army as it retreats to Moscow and follows Napoleon until Paris. He describes skirmishes and battles but more importantly the lodgings from dirty straw to noble luxury and the people he meets from Catherine the Great to boiler of soap.
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Release dateOct 6, 2020
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Woldemar Von Löwenstern: Memoirs of a Livonian from the Years 1790 to 1815
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Victoria Joan Moessner

Victoria Joan Moessner, PhD, Professor of German Emerita at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, has published translations of German travel memoirs from the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries: Georg Heinrich von Langsdorff: A Voyage around the World 1803-1807; The first Russian Voyage around the World: The Journal of Hermann Ludwig von Löwenstern 1803-1806 and Hermann Ludwig von Löwenstern 1793-1803 and 1806 to 1815; With Count Pahlen’s Cavalry against Napoleon: Memoirs of the Russian General Eduard von Löwenstern (1790-1837); and Amalie Christine Jencken 1785-1878: From Estonia to Ireland to Australia and Inbetween.

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