The Tale of Sergey Nepeitsin

Once, the writer and historian V. M. Glinka, while working with museum collections and archives, found an old engraving - a portrait of an officer with combat orders on his uniform, leaning on crutches, with the inscription "Brave Colonel Nepeitsin",... and a few years later - a drawing of a leg prosthesis designed by the famous inventor I. P. Kulibin for the artillery officer Nepeitsin. This extraordinary case intrigued the writer - thus began the work on books about the outstanding Russian officer, a hero of the assault on Ochakov and the Patriotic War of 1812.

On the pages of the book "The Tale of Sergey Nepeitsin", we see Prince Grigory Potemkin and General Mikhail Kutuzov, artist Mikhail Ivanov and inventor Ivan Kulibin, and many other contemporaries of the main character. The narrative begins with Nepeitsin's childhood, continues with his studies at the Engineering and Artillery Corps, where Sergey studied with the future Minister of War Alexei Arakcheev and future heroes of the Napoleonic Wars Ivan Dorokhov and Vasily Kostenetsky. After graduating from the corps, Nepeitsin found himself in the Russo-Turkish War of 1787–1791, and his first major battle was the assault on the fortress of Ochakov in 1788. As a result of a severe wound received on the walls of Ochakov, the seventeen-year-old artillery lieutenant lost his leg above the knee, but a fateful meeting with I. P. Kulibin gave him the opportunity to continue his military service.

To learn about the further fate of this extraordinary man, one can read the novel "The Road of Honor".