War And Peace: Book 2 - CHAPTER VI

作者: Leo Tolstoy

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Author: Leo Tolstoy

KUTUZOV fell back to Vienna, destroying behind him the bridges over the river

Inn (in Braunau) and the river Traun (in Linz). On the 23rd of October the

Russian troops crossed the river Enns. The Russian baggage-waggons and artillery

and the columns of troops were in the middle of that day stretching in a long

string across the town of Enns on both sides of the bridge. The day was warm,

autumnal, and rainy. The wide view that opened out from the heights where the

Russian batteries stood guarding the bridge was at times narrowed by the

slanting rain that shut it in like a muslin curtain, then again widened out, and

in the bright sunlight objects could be distinctly seen in the distance, looking

as if covered with a coat of varnish. The little town could be seen below with

its white houses and its red roofs, its cathedral and its bridge, on both sides

of which streamed masses of Russian troops, crowded together. At the bend of the

Danube could be seen ships and the island and a castle with a park, surrounded

by the waters formed by the Enns falling into the Danube, and the precipitous

left bank of the Danube, covered with pine forest, with a mysterious distance of

green tree-tops and bluish gorges. Beyond the pine forest, that looked wild and

untouched by the hand of man, rose the turrets of a nunnery; and in the far

distance in front, on the hill on the further side of the Enns, could be seen

the scouts of the enemy.

Between the cannons on the height stood the general in command of the

rear-guard and an officer of the suite scanning the country through a

field-glass. A little behind them, there sat on the trunk of a cannon,

Nesvitsky, who had been despatched by the commander-in-chief to the rear-guard.

The Cossack who accompanied Nesvitsky had handed him over a knapsack and a

flask, and Nesvitsky was regaling the officers with pies and real doppel-k