Show WHO BURNED CITY OF MOSCOW Conf confession essien of the incendiary as sequel to a story of love leva and hate historians of napoleons inva lon of 11 r la have for or more than a cen ury bt b n tra trains ing to discover whose hand it was vas which applied the torch to mos moa f cn cow or care tle the order for the confra gralton which precipitated the rr krnc nc emperor a retreat says the washington post at the time count theodore RIstol chine was paid to have been the in 1823 ho however weer he pub fished a P pamphlet the ne truth C con on cernin the great fire ot of Alo moscow scow in which the blame was laid at the door of soldiers made road mad with vod bod ka nou nott however the granddaughter of tho lie ro vernor general countess lydle lydie rn op chine in a biography ot of her substantiates the for original ginal clibrey cli Brec against hl hi mand says hla his denlid was wac due to influence exerted over him by his beautiful vhf iff just before the city was taken he had sent her to A distant e for safety and on OB the evacuation by the french he be had implored her to come back to a husband who worships bips you and who you beyond all oth ers to at the time the count was 47 and the countess 35 in his letters to her he had frankly admitted that he had bad given orders to fire the city when he was accused of the deed by the french officers she implored him to den the accusation the secret might have hae been burled buried with him but for a subsequent discovery that his wife had bad repudiated the orthodox religion and had become a roman cath olic he became embittered and morose under the shook shock cut her oft off in if his will and left a sealed package containing the truth about the moscow fire only to be opened and made public a century after the date of his marriage this duty has hag fallen to countess lydle lydia to carry out |