When Paskievich returned to the headquarters stationed in the Two Danube Principalities from Tsarskoye Selo just outside St. Petersburg, it was quietly approaching around June 24th.
Although it was the time of early summer, the temperature of the Two Danube Principalities showed no change, still presenting relatively large temperature differences between day and night, with the highest temperature at noon reaching around 24°C, while the lowest temperature at night dropped down to about 12°C.
Under such temperature differences, the crude and chaotic military camp became a high incidence area for colds, with hundreds of soldiers contracting colds and fevers daily, yet the Russian officers of all levels, being the soul of this army, showed no concern about this. In their eyes, the lives of those serf soldiers were not worth a single ruble, and their existence was merely to help these officers add a few more insignias on their shoulders.
