Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
December 6, 1821
Primary Source Reference:
Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 117
Additional Source Text:
The donor is described as "of St. Petersburg."
Notes:
The Battle of Borodino took place on 7 Sep 1812 during Napoleon's French invasion of Russia. The Grande Armée won the battle against the Imperial Russian Army with casualties in a ratio 2:3, but failed to gain a decisive victory.
Philadelphian Willilam D. Lewis lived in Russia from 1814 to 1819 representing the interests of his brother's mercantile firm. See Norman E. Saul, "America's First Student of Russian: William David Lewis of Philadelphia," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 96, no. 4 (Oct. 1972): 469-479.
