Excerpt from The Patriot, 1917 NE winter-day in the year of 1812, four people sat in a little hut, by which Napoleon, his star sunken beyond the horizon was soon to pass on his ill-fated journey to Moscow. These four people 'were' Ivan Ivanovitch, Marinka, his Wife, their son, Boris, and Marinha's old mother, who, was reputed to be a witch. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.