In 1812, Napoleon's "Grand Army", which had melted from 600,000 to 30,000 frostbitten, bearded and sick soldiers, reached the Berezina River, whose bridges had been blown up. The temperature was minus ...

Since then the term "Berezina" has become synonymous with catastrophe in French. "This river and its landscape, which can be reconstructed, are quite suitable," Zakharova said.

The Germans came up against a tough natural line at the Berezina River where Napoleon caught hell on his return trip, against the so-called Stalin Line at the Dniester River and near Zhitomir ...

Thousands died of hunger, thousands more were trapped by the Russians as Napoleon tried to get back across the Berezina River, where the Germans also had heavy losses last week (see p. 17).

MINSK, 13 June (BelTA) - The Institute of History of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, together with the diving center, resumed underwater archaeological research on the Berezina River ...

Here, under the protection of the Berezinsky Nature Reserve, there are thousands of hectares of original territories: rivers, forests, swamps and floodplains of the picturesque Berezina River. Ancient ...

Natalia Berezina, 38, returned home to Russia's Blagoveshchensk — just 700 meters across the Heilong River — carrying a large suitcase of goods. It takes just five minutes on a ferry or ...