They burned the villages and farmhouses.
Before the last full moon, you never desired to visit the villages, or even to venture outside our walls.
Around the villages are extensive cultivated fields and orchards, containing fig, pomegranate and orange trees.
The same thing that took place in Moscow had happened in all the towns and villages on Russian soil beginning with Smolensk, without the participation of Count Rostopchin and his broadsheets.
I lost twelve men on my last visit to the villages.