Crimean War. Volume 1. Tarle E.V.

The fundamental work of academician E.V. Tarle “Crimean War” is a masterpiece of historical science recognized around the world. In the domestic tradition, this book opened a new reading of the theme of one of the most striking, tragic and at the same time heroic pages of the history of Russia. For the first time in Russian historiography, such an extensive, comprehensive study of the largest diplomatic and military confrontation between Russia and all of Europe was published. Using a huge archival and printed material, the author showed a complex ball of international contradictions that has developed in Europe and Asia Minor by the middle of the 19th century.

, from under the skillful pen of the historian and writer Tarle, a fascinating, actually accurate and detailed story About the Crimean War, which still did not lose its scientific significance. The brightness, imagery, emotionality, irony, in places turning into murderous sarcasm, that is, everything that, coupled with close attention to details, is the characteristic features of the labors of E.V. Tarle, in this work appeared in all the splendor of artistic talent. The excellent addition of our publication is an extensive, carefully selected and precisely placed illustrative material, representing the view of all the opposing aspects of this military-political conflict.