Outside the gate Kutuzov was sitting in a droshky, buried in deep thought. Colonel Toll drove up to the Russian general and reported that the French had entered Moscow. "God be praised," answered Kutuzov. "That is their last triumph."
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Speech to his men before withdrawing his forces to the southeast of Moscow, as recalled by Sergey Glinka. Translated by Anthony Brett-James, 1812: Eyewitness Accounts of Napoleon's Defeat in Russia (London: Macmillan, 1966), p. 165