Rostopchín’s broadsheets, headed by woodcuts of a drink shop, a potman, and a Moscow burgher called Karpúshka Chigírin, “ who⁠—having been a militiaman and having had rather too much at the pub⁠—heard that Napoleon wished to come to Moscow, grew angry, abused the French in very bad language, came out of the drink shop, and, under the sign of the eagle, began to address the assembled people ,” were read and discussed, together with the latest of Vasíli Lvóvich Púshkin’s bouts rimés .