Monument to Leontiy Root. Grenadier Leonty Root: Highest military honors from Napoleon

On October 4, 1813, during the famous Leipzig "battle of the peoples", Leonty Korennoy, a grenadier of the Life Guards of the Finnish Regiment, accomplished his feat, glorifying the hero throughout Russia.

By this time he was already an experienced soldier. Among his colleagues, Root enjoyed great respect and authority for the strength that the Lord generously awarded him, courage and fearlessness in battle, rare growth and good-natured character. In the guards regiment, the grenadier was respectfully called "Uncle Root". The Russian hero deserved his first "George" for the courage shown in the battle of Borodino. At one of the critical moments of the battle, the Finnish had to keep at all costs for several hours until help arrived at the edge of the forest. Then Root gathered five fellow soldiers around him and sat down on the edge of the forest, having managed to defend his position. All six received the most coveted soldier's award - the insignia of the Military Order.

And on October 4, 1813, in the famous "battle of the peoples" near Leipzig, the 3rd Root had a chance to accomplish an even more glorious feat. When the battalion of the Life Guards of the Finnish Regiment was attacked by significantly superior enemy forces and began to retreat in battle, part of the battalion was pressed against a high stone fence. The place of the battle near the stone wall turned out to be cramped. Most of the battalion quickly climbed back over the wall. But almost all the officers were wounded in battle and could not overcome the stone barrier, to which the French pressed the remnants of the battalion. Then Leonty Korennoy helped the battalion commander and wounded officers cross over it, while he himself, with a handful of brave men, remained to cover the retreating comrades.

Soon he was left alone and furiously fought back with a bayonet and butt from the pressing enemies. The fearless guardsman had already received several bayonet wounds, his uniform was covered in blood. Pressing against the wall, Root not only parried blows, but also delivered them himself. When the bayonet broke, the soldier took the gun by the muzzle and began to fight back with the butt.

On the contrary, recent enemies put him on a stretcher and took him to the dressing station. Emperor Napoleon, who visited the wounded, having learned about the feat of the Root, was amazed. And the next day, the name of the Russian guardsman got into the order for the French army, issued under the signature of Napoleon. In it, Root was called a hero and a role model and an example to the French soldiers. And after the soldier was able to get on his feet, again on the personal orders of Napoleon, he was released from captivity.

Leonty Korennoy appeared before his colleagues with a bandaged head, tied to the neck with his left hand. Barely moved his wounded legs. The guardsman, however, to the enthusiastic cries of his comrades, bravo reported to the company commander: "Yourselves, I have the honor to appear: I have arrived from captivity. I was released on the orders of Bonaparte himself ..."

For his courage, Root was promoted to lieutenant and became the standard bearer of the regiment. He was also awarded a special silver medal around his neck with the inscription "For the love of the Fatherland."

Later, a song was composed about the hero Leonty Korenny, which entered the glorious history of the Finnish Life Guards Infantry Regiment. And in 1903, when the Finnish Life Guards Regiment celebrated its centenary, the officers of the regiment celebrated it by installing a bronze monument to the Root, which was presented at the entrance to the front building of the officers' meeting.

And all the officers, right up to the revolution itself, entering the assembly, took off their caps in front of him and saluted the soldier ... The Bolsheviks, having come to power, destroyed this monument, because. the heroic deed of the brave Russian soldier-bogatyr did not in any way reflect the "questions of the class struggle of the proletariat" ...

Only a pedestal remained from the monument. It can be seen behind the Suvorov Museum

On October 16, 1813, during the famous Leipzig "Battle of the Nations", a simple grenadier of the Life Guards of the Finnish Regiment alone fought a bayonet battle with a whole French unit for half an hour. He got 18 stab...

By this time, Leonty Korennoy was already an experienced soldier. The Russian hero deserved his first "George" for the courage shown in the battle of Borodino. At one of the critical moments of the battle, it was necessary at all costs to hold a position at the edge of the forest for several hours until help arrived. Then Root gathered five fellow soldiers around him and sat down on the edge of the forest, having managed to defend his position. All six received the most coveted soldier award - "George".

And during the famous "battle of the peoples" near Leipzig, Root had a chance to accomplish an even more glorious feat.

When the battalion of the Life Guards of the Finnish Regiment was attacked by significantly superior enemy forces and began to retreat in battle, part of the battalion was pressed against a high stone fence. The place of the battle near the stone wall turned out to be cramped. Most of the battalion quickly climbed back over the wall. But almost all the officers were wounded in battle and could not overcome the stone barrier, to which the French pressed the remnants of the battalion. Then Leonty Korennoy helped the battalion commander and wounded officers cross over it, while he himself, with a handful of brave men, remained to cover the retreating comrades.

The French, surprised at the bravery of the Russian, shouted at him to surrender. But he did not even think of throwing the weapon. The fight continued. When, nevertheless, the Russian hero, having received 18 bayonet wounds, was defeated, the French soldiers who stood over the fallen hero, out of respect for the brave man, did not dare to finish him off. On the contrary, recent enemies put him on a stretcher and took him to the dressing station. Emperor Napoleon, who visited the wounded, having learned about the feat of Root, was amazed. And the next day, the name of the Russian guardsman got into the order for the French army, issued under the signature of Napoleon. In it, Root was called a hero and a role model and an example to the French soldiers. And after the soldier was able to get on his feet, again on the personal orders of Napoleon, he was released from captivity.

Leonty Korennoy appeared before his colleagues with a bandaged head, tied to the neck with his left hand. Barely moved his wounded legs. The guardsman, however, to the enthusiastic cries of his comrades, bravely reported to the company commander: “Your vokbrod, I have the honor to appear: I have arrived from captivity. He was released on the orders of Bonaparte himself ... "

For his courage, Root was promoted to lieutenant and became the standard bearer of the regiment.

He was also awarded a special silver medal around his neck with the inscription "For the love of the Fatherland."

Later, a song was composed about the hero Leonty Korenny, which entered the glorious history of the Finnish Life Guards Infantry Regiment.

And in 1903, when the Finnish Life Guards Regiment was celebrating its centenary, the officers of the regiment celebrated it by installing a bronze monument to Root, which was presented at the entrance to the front building of the officers' assembly. And all the officers, right up to the revolution itself, entering the assembly, took off their caps in front of him and saluted the soldier.

In the Imperial Militia Battalion, later the Life Guards Finland Regiment. When speaking on a campaign in 1812, Root was in the 3rd grenadier company, where, as in other grenadier companies, the best and most honored soldiers were transferred. In 1812, in the Battle of Borodino, Root received the insignia of the Military Order (No. 16970). 2 grenadiers and 4 riflemen, including those who distinguished themselves and Root, according to the official description of their exploits, showed their distinction as follows:

“During the entire battle (of Borodino) with the enemy, they were in the arrows and repeatedly refuted his strengthening chains, hitting hard, and each step was marked by courage and bravery, which, having overturned the enemy, put him to flight and, having driven him out of the forest on bayonets, occupied that a place that they stubbornly defended for several hours.

In 1813, Root was already an old serviceman. During the Battle of the Nations, he performed a feat so outstanding that it became known to the entire army, and Napoleon was brought to the attention of him. The story of the feat of the Root is written like this [where?] according to eyewitnesses:

“In the battle near Leipzig, when the Finnish regiment ousted the French from the village of Gossy, and the 3rd battalion of the regiment bypassed the village, the battalion commander Colonel Gervais and his officers were the first to climb over the stone fence, and the rangers rushed after them, drove the French already; but, being surrounded by a numerous enemy, they firmly defended their place; many officers were wounded; then Korennoy, having transplanted the battalion commander and his wounded commanders over the fence, he himself gathered the daring, desperate rangers and began to defend, while other rangers rescued the wounded officers from the battlefield. Root with a handful of dashing shooters stood firmly and held the place of battle, shouting: "do not give up, guys." At first they fired back, but the large number of the enemy hampered ours so that they fought back with bayonets ... everyone fell, some were killed and others were wounded, and Korennoy was left alone. The French, surprised at the brave huntsman, shouted for him to surrender, but Korennoy turned his gun in response, took the muzzle and fought back with the butt. Then several enemy bayonets laid him down in place, and around this hero lay all our desperately defending, with heaps of the French killed by them. We all mourned, - adds the narrator [who?] , - the brave "Uncle Root". A few days later, to the great joy of the entire regiment, "Uncle Root" appeared from captivity, covered with wounds; but, fortunately, the wounds were not all serious. This does honor to the French, who inflicted only light wounds on him, respecting his exemplary courage. Covered with 18 wounds, Root, returning to the regiment, spoke about his stay in captivity, where the fame of his outstanding courage spread throughout all French troops, and he himself was introduced to Napoleon, who asked to see the Russian miracle hero. The deed of Root so delighted the great commander that he, in an order for his army, set the Finnish grenadier as an example to all his soldiers.

For his courage, Leonty Korennoy was immediately promoted to ensign - the highest non-commissioned officer rank (the rarest case in the Russian army) and became the standard bearer of the regiment. He was also awarded a special silver medal around his neck with the inscription "For the love of the Fatherland."

Memory

In 1903, when the Finnish Life Guards Regiment was celebrating its centenary, the officers of the regiment celebrated it by installing a bronze monument to Root, which was presented at the entrance to the front building of the officers' assembly.

The monument was designed by the academician of architecture I. S. Kitner, with the participation of the sculptor E. I. Malyshev and the foundry worker K. A. Robekki. The monument depicted the feat of Root in the "Battle of the Nations" at Leipzig in 1813.
The monument has been lost, only its pedestal has been preserved. At the moment, the pedestal is located behind the building of the Suvorov Museum.
In the history of the Life Guards of the Finnish Regiment, the following song about Korennoy, composed by his comrades, is given:
We remember Uncle Root,
He lives in our memory
It happened, on what enemy
Will go into hostility with the guys.

Then the bulat will stir,
Hand-to-hand combat will boil.
The blood of the enemy will flow in a stream,
And the Root is knocking forward;

And the enemy's troops marveled,
Like a Russian private in Goss
Saved the bosses heroically.
Saved everyone - and surrendered his head.

Bonaparte himself glorified him,
Sent an order to the army,
I set the Russian as an example for everyone,
So that everyone knows Root.

Here was a small miracle hero,
Dashing flank grenadier,
Everywhere, always, in battles remote,
An example of heroic courage.

There is another popular soldier's song given in the collection of M. K. Lipkin:

He's covered in blood, he's all wounded,
But the spirit in him is strong and strong,
And the glory of Mother Russia
He did not dishonor in battle.

Before the French bayonets
He didn't grow up with a Russian heart
To die for the Motherland, for the brothers
He looked with secret pride.

Also, the feat of Leonty Korenny was described by Valentin Pikul in the story "Eighteen Bayonet Wounds".

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Notes

Sources

Military Encyclopedia / Ed. V. F. Novitsky and others - St. Petersburg. : Society of I. V. Sytin, 1911-1915.
Gulevich S. A. History of the Life Guards of the Finnish Regiment. 1806-1906. At 5 pm St. Petersburg, 1906-1909
Lebedev N. Life Guards Finnish regiment in the battle near the village of Grosse and near Leipzig. (Historical Scenes October 4th, 1813). SPb., 1856.
Lipkin M.K. Songs about the heroes of the Russian army and navy. Warsaw, 1903
Marin A. A brief outline of the history of the Life Guards of the Finnish Regiment or materials in memoirs and stories for the complete history of the regiment ... In 2 books. St. Petersburg, 1846

An excerpt characterizing Root, Leonty

The captain, limping slightly and whistling something, entered the room.
The Frenchman's chatter, which had previously amused Pierre, now seemed disgusting to him. And the whistled song, and the gait, and the gesture of twisting the mustache - everything now seemed insulting to Pierre.
“I’ll leave now, I won’t say a word to him anymore,” thought Pierre. He thought this, and meanwhile he was sitting in the same place. Some strange feeling of weakness chained him to his place: he wanted to and could not get up and leave.
The captain, on the other hand, seemed very cheerful. He walked twice across the room. His eyes shone, and his mustache twitched slightly, as if he were smiling to himself at some amusing invention.
“Charmant,” he said suddenly, “le colonel de ces Wurtembourgeois!” C "est un Allemand; mais brave garcon, s" il en fut. Mais Allemand. [Lovely, colonel of these Württembergers! He is German; but a nice fellow, despite this. But German.]
He sat down opposite Pierre.
- A propos, vous savez donc l "allemand, vous? [By the way, do you know German, then?]
Pierre looked at him silently.
– Comment dites vous asile en allemand? [How do you say shelter in German?]
- Asile? Pierre repeated. – Asile en allemand – Unterkunft. [Hideout? Shelter - in German - Unterkunft.]
– Comment dites vous? [How do you say?] – the captain asked incredulously and quickly.
“Unterkunft,” Pierre repeated.
“Onterkoff,” said the captain, and looked at Pierre with laughing eyes for a few seconds. – Les Allemands sont de fieres betes. N "est ce pas, monsieur Pierre? [What fools these Germans are. Isn't it, Monsieur Pierre?] - he concluded.
- Eh bien, encore une bouteille de ce Bordeau Moscovite, n "est ce pas? Morel, va nous chauffer encore une pelilo bouteille. Morel! [Well, another bottle of this Moscow Bordeaux, isn't it? Morel will warm us another bottle. Morel !] the captain shouted cheerfully.
Morel brought candles and a bottle of wine. The captain looked at Pierre in the light, and he was apparently struck by the upset face of his interlocutor. Ramball, with sincere grief and participation in his face, went up to Pierre and bent over him.
- Eh bien, nous sommes tristes, [What is it, are we sad?] - he said, touching Pierre's hand. – Vous aurai je fait de la peine? Non, vrai, avez vous quelque chose contre moi, he repeated. – Peut etre rapport a la situation? [Maybe I upset you? No, really, don't you have anything against me? Maybe about position?]
Pierre did not answer, but looked affectionately into the eyes of the Frenchman. This expression of participation pleased him.
- Parole d "honneur, sans parler de ce que je vous dois, j" ai de l "amitie pour vous. Puis je faire quelque chose pour vous? Disposez de moi. C" est a la vie et a la mort. C "est la main sur le c?ur que je vous le dis, [Honestly, not to mention what I owe you, I feel friendship for you. Is there anything I can do for you? Have me. It's for life and death, I tell you this with my hand over my heart,] he said, hitting his chest.
“Merci,” said Pierre. The captain looked intently at Pierre, just as he looked when he learned how the shelter was called in German, and his face suddenly lit up.
- Ah! dans ce cas je bois a notre amitie! [Ah, in that case, I drink to your friendship!] – he shouted cheerfully, pouring two glasses of wine. Pierre took the poured glass and drank it. Rambal drank his, shook hands with Pierre again, and leaned his elbows on the table in a thoughtfully melancholic pose.
“Oui, mon cher ami, voila les caprices de la fortune,” he began. - Qui m "aurait dit que je serai soldat et capitaine de dragons au service de Bonaparte, comme nous l" appellions jadis. Et cependant me voila a Moscou avec lui. Il faut vous dire, mon cher, ”he continued in the sad measured voice of a man who is going to tell a long story,“ que notre nom est l "un des plus anciens de la France. [Yes, my friend, here is the wheel of fortune. Who said I wish I would be a soldier and captain of dragoons in the service of Bonaparte, as we used to call him. However, here I am in Moscow with him. I must tell you, my dear ... that our name is one of the most ancient in France.]
And with the easy and naive frankness of a Frenchman, the captain told Pierre the story of his ancestors, his childhood, adolescence and manhood, all his related property, family relations. “Ma pauvre mere [“My poor mother.”] played, of course, an important role in this story.
- Mais tout ca ce n "est que la mise en scene de la vie, le fond c" est l "amour? L" amour! N "est ce pas, monsieur; Pierre?" he said, brightening up. "Encore un verre. [But all this is only an introduction to life, its essence is love. Love! Isn't that right, Monsieur Pierre? Another glass. ]
Pierre drank again and poured himself a third.
- Oh! Les femmes, les femmes! [O! women, women!] - and the captain, looking at Pierre with greasy eyes, began to talk about love and his love affairs. There were a lot of them, which was easy to believe, looking at the self-satisfied, beautiful face of the officer and at the enthusiastic animation with which he spoke about women. Despite the fact that all the love stories of Rambal had that nasty character in which the French see the exceptional charm and poetry of love, the captain told his stories with such sincere conviction that he alone experienced and knew all the charms of love, and so temptingly described women that Pierre listened with curiosity.
It was obvious that l "amour, which the Frenchman loved so much, was neither the lower and simple kind of love that Pierre once felt for his wife, nor the romantic love he himself inflated that he felt for Natasha (both kinds of this love Rambal equally despised - one was l "amour des charretiers, the other l" amour des nigauds) [the love of cabbies, the other is the love of fools.]; l "amour, which the French worshiped, consisted mainly in the unnaturalness of relations with a woman and in a combination of ugliness that gave the main charm to the feeling.
So the captain told the touching story of his love for a charming thirty-five-year-old marquise and at the same time for a lovely innocent seventeen-year-old child, the daughter of a charming marquise. The struggle of generosity between mother and daughter, which ended in the mother, sacrificing herself, offering her daughter in marriage to her lover, even now, although a long-gone memory, worried the captain. Then he told one episode in which the husband played the role of a lover, and he (the lover) the role of a husband, and several comic episodes from souvenirs d "Allemagne, where asile means Unterkunft, where les maris mangent de la choux croute and where les jeunes filles sont trop blondes [memories of Germany, where husbands eat cabbage soup and where young girls are too blonde.]

(? - after 1814)

Hero of the Battle of Borodino and the "Battle of the Nations" near Leipzig.

In any war, there are many feats and heroic deeds. They do not always become "nominal" for history. Looking back into the distant past, you see that only those who were great personalities, significant for their time, generals or naval commanders, military leaders or statesmen became true heroes. The names of ordinary warriors are inevitably forgotten

But if ordinary war heroes remain in history thanks to the statements of some really great person or, say, a song is composed about them, then they are remembered to this day. One of these names is Leonty Korennoy, Corporal of the Life Guards of the Finnish Regiment, who flashed his soldierly prowess on the Borodino field and in the "Battle of the Nations" near Leipzig.

... His first soldier's St. George's Cross - "Egoriy" - guardsman Leonty Korennoy received for the battle of Borodino, glorious for Russian weapons.

In the midst of the battle was the Finnish Life Guards Infantry Regiment. He came to the defense of Moscow from St. Petersburg, where he adorned the royal parades and parades. And here, on the field of Borodino, he had to confirm the honorary title of the Life Guards with fearlessness and stamina. Confirm under a hail of bullets and buckshot.

The Finnish in this fierce battle more than once repulsed enemy attacks and themselves went into decisive bayonet counterattacks, throwing the French from their position. In hand-to-hand combat, the 3rd grenadier company was especially distinguished, where, according to tradition, the best and most honored soldiers were gathered. And the right-flank company corporal Leonty Korennoy was especially noticeable in the battle.

By 1812 he was already an old soldier. He began his service in the Kronstadt garrison battalion, then he was transferred to the Imperial Militia Battalion, which later became the basis of the Finnish Infantry Regiment, which soon joined the ranks of the Russian guard. The native among his colleagues enjoyed great respect for the strength that nature generously awarded him, courage and fearlessness in battle, rare growth and good-natured character. In the guards regiment, the right-flank grenadier was respectfully called "Uncle Root".

The Finnish Life Guards Regiment became famous at Borodino for having withstood the frenzied onslaught of the attacking heavy French cavalry. His column, bristling with hundreds of bayonets at such moments of the battle, stood like a wall. And when the Finns went with hostility, one of the most notable was Leonty Korennoy from the 3rd Grenadier Company. In the regiment then there were only four grenadier companies, all the rest were musketeers. During the battle, the regiment lost many officers, and then junior commanders took over the command.

In the battle of Borodino, there was such an episode when the Finns needed to keep the edge of the forest at all costs. In such a situation, Corporal Root took the initiative. He gathered around him five fellow soldiers - one grenadier and four musketeers - and sat down on the edge of a dangerous place. Six heroes fought off the enemies. All six received for the feat the most coveted soldier's award - the Insignia of the Military Order - the St. George Cross.

The regimental clerk wrote this (I must say - not particularly intelligibly) in the presentation of those who distinguished themselves for awards:

“During the entire battle with the enemy, they were in the arrows and repeatedly refuted his strengthening chains, hitting hard, and each step was marked by courage and bravery, which, having overturned the enemy, put him to flight and, driving him out of the forest on bayonets, took the place that they were stubbornly defended for several hours.

Corporal Leonty Korennoy received George No. 16970.

The grenadier Korennoy repeated his feat, accomplished on the Borodino field, on the field of the "Battle of the Nations" near Leipzig in the October days of 1813.

... The Finnish Life Guards Infantry Regiment received an order to attack the village of Gossu. In a fierce battle, the French were driven out of its southern part, but they entrenched themselves in the northern part and stubbornly fought off the Russians. Then the 3rd battalion of the regiment under the command of Colonel Gervais went around the village. There, the battalion commander and his officers were the first to climb over the high stone fence, subordinates rushed after them. In hand-to-hand combat, the French were driven, but then numerous help arrived in time for the defenders.

The battalion was surrounded by many times superior enemy. The place of the fight at the stone fence turned out to be cramped. Russian infantrymen fought to the death. It was necessary to retreat, and Colonel Gervais ordered the drummers to beat the retreat. Most of the battalion's soldiers quickly climbed over the wall. But almost all the officers were wounded in battle and could not overcome the stone barrier, to which the French pressed the remnants of the battalion.

And suddenly, already triumphant, the French saw how a tall, broad-shouldered guardsman, decorated with a white cross, picked up wounded officers one by one and lifted them to the crest of the wall. From there they tumbled down to safety, into the garden. When Korennoy thus saved all the wounded commanders, the enemy came to his senses from a moment of confusion.

But it was too late. The Cavalier of St. George has already gathered the last Finnish people around him. There were very few of them left. Hand-to-hand combat resumed, and after some time, Leonty Korennoy alone fought against the wall: all his comrades fell under the blows of enemy bayonets. The fearless guardsman, wounded many times already, pressed himself against the wall. He not only parried blows, but also delivered them himself. When the bayonet broke, the corporal took hold of the barrel and fought back with the butt.

The French, surprised at the bravery of the Russian, shouted at him to surrender. But he did not think of throwing weapons. The fight continued. When several enemy bayonets put Root to the ground, there were many enemy soldiers defeated by him around the hero. And he inspired such respect for the enemy with his courage that in the crowd of Frenchmen who stood over the fallen hero, there was no such person who would finish him off.

On the contrary, having counted 18 bayonet wounds on the body of a Russian soldier, recent enemies laid him on a stretcher and took him to a dressing station. There, the French healers, surprised by the strength of the muscles of the brave man, came to the conclusion that of all the wounds he received, there was not a single life-threatening one. And indeed, after the dressing, Leonty Korennoy was able to get on his feet.

The dressing station was visited by Emperor Napoleon with his retinue, he made it a rule to visit his wounded soldiers, taking care of his popularity in the army. Here he saw Korennoy, and after listening to the report on the circumstances under which he was captured, he was amazed.

Looking into the face of the guardsman, Napoleon asked through an interpreter:

For which battle did you receive the cross?

The root replied shortly:

For Borodino.

The emperor did not need to translate this word. The terrible battle near Moscow, as Napoleon later wrote, while in exile on the island of St. Helena, was the most terrible of all 50 given to him. It was on the field of Borodino that the sunset of Bonaparte's star began. And as if a living reminder of the day of Borodin, this completely wounded, but not defeated Russian guardsman, who saved all his officers, stood in front of the "little corporal". A real grenadier.

Napoleon patted Root on the shoulder and, turning, said to his adjutants:

In tomorrow's order for the army to announce the feat of this Russian hero ... I set him as an example to all my soldiers ... Release him from captivity as soon as he is able to get to his own ...

And the next day, Leonty Korennoy, a corporal of the Finnish Life Guards Infantry Regiment, was ordered by the French army. The order was signed by Napoleon himself. The Cavalier of St. George was called a hero, a role model even for the French grenadiers, who more than once surprised opponents with their heroism on the battlefields.

In 1813

Biography

Having begun service in the Kronstadt garrison battalion, in January 1808 he was transferred by Tsarevich Konstantin Pavlovich to the Imperial Militia Battalion, later the Life Guards Finland Regiment. When speaking on a campaign in 1812, Root was in the 3rd grenadier company, where, as in other grenadier companies, the best and most honored soldiers were transferred. In 1812, in the battle of Borodino, Korennoy received the badge of distinction of the Military Order (No. 16970). 2 grenadiers and 4 riflemen, including those who distinguished themselves and Root, according to the official description of their exploits, showed their distinction as follows:

In 1813, Root was already an old serviceman. During the Battle of the Nations, he accomplished a feat so outstanding that it became known to the entire army, and it was brought to the attention of Napoleon. The story about the feat of Root is written as follows [ where?] according to eyewitnesses:

“In the battle near Leipzig, when the Finnish regiment ousted the French from the village of Gossy, and the 3rd battalion of the regiment bypassed the village, the battalion commander Colonel Gervais and his officers were the first to climb over the stone fence, and the rangers rushed after them, drove the French already; but, being surrounded by a numerous enemy, they firmly defended their place; many officers were wounded; then Korennoy, having transplanted the battalion commander and his wounded commanders over the fence, he himself gathered the daring, desperate rangers and began to defend, while other rangers rescued the wounded officers from the battlefield. Root with a handful of dashing shooters stood firmly and held the place of battle, shouting: "do not give up, guys." At first they fired back, but the large number of the enemy hampered ours so that they fought back with bayonets ... everyone fell, some were killed and others were wounded, and Korennoy was left alone. The French, surprised at the brave huntsman, shouted for him to surrender, but Korennoy turned his gun in response, took the muzzle and fought back with the butt. Then several enemy bayonets laid him down in place, and around this hero lay all our desperately defending, with heaps of the French killed by them. We all mourned, - adds the narrator [ who?], - the brave "Uncle Root". A few days later, to the great joy of the entire regiment, "Uncle Root" appeared from captivity, covered with wounds; but, fortunately, the wounds were not all serious. This does honor to the French, who inflicted only light wounds on him, respecting his exemplary courage. Covered with 18 wounds, Root, returning to the regiment, spoke about his stay in captivity, where the fame of his outstanding courage spread throughout all French troops, and he himself was introduced to Napoleon, who asked to see the Russian miracle hero. The deed of Root so delighted the great commander that he, in an order for his army, set the Finnish grenadier as an example to all his soldiers.

Memory

Then the bulat will stir,
Hand-to-hand combat will boil.
The blood of the enemy will flow in a stream,
And the Root is knocking forward;

And the enemy's troops marveled,
Like a Russian private in Goss
Saved the bosses heroically.
Saved everyone - and surrendered his head.

Bonaparte himself glorified him,
Sent an order to the army,
I set the Russian as an example for everyone,
So that everyone knows Root.

Here was a small miracle hero,
Dashing flank grenadier,
Everywhere, always, in battles remote,
An example of heroic courage.

There is another popular soldier's song given in the collection of M.K. Lipkin:

He's covered in blood, he's all wounded,
But the spirit in him is strong and strong,
And the glory of Mother Russia
He did not dishonor in battle.

Before the French bayonets
He didn't grow up with a Russian heart
To die for the Motherland, for the brothers
He looked with secret pride.

Also, the feat of Leonty Korenny was described by Valentin Pikul in the story "Eighteen Bayonet Wounds".

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