At the walls of motionless China. The diary of the Russian correspondent. Yangchevetsky D.G.

The attention of readers is proposed to a unique book of notes of the Russian correspondent Dmitry Grigoryevich Yangvevetsky (1873-1938), an eyewitness of the events of the uprising of the e -etowear (boxing uprising) in China in 1900-1901. The author clearly and emotionally describes the military operations of the Russian and allied forces that saved Europeans from the focus of the uprising of boxers.

The reader is faced with “Living pictures of the storm of forts Taku, the expedition of Admiral Seymour, epic of the Tianzzin ​​siege, the united campaign of international troops on Beijing , ending in the occupation of the capital of Bogdykhan, at the storm of which the author was the guide of the Russian advanced detachment. " After the publication of this book, Yangchevetsky, on the recommendation of the President of France, was elected a member of the French Literary Academy.