Crimean War. Volume 2. Tarle E.V.

The two -volume monograph “Crimean War” by the famous domestic historian E.V. Tarla was the first truly scientific fundamental work about the subtle intricacies of European politics in the middle of the 19th century. This book had a complex fate, but contrary to all circumstances, it was it that determined the “golden” canon for domestic historians, according to which it is necessary to explore the Crimean war (1854-1855) and the heroic defense of Sevastopol. “Along with the expulsion of the Poles during the time of Minin and Pozharsky, along with the Petrovskaya Poltava and with the Kutuzovsky Borodino battle, the Nakhimovsky Sevastopol showed what Russia is capable of in a minute of formidable danger,” the academician E.V. Tarle himself wrote about the events of that time.

Crimean War (1854–1855) has become one of the turning point in the history of Europe and especially in the history of Russian domestic and foreign policy. The second volume of the book covers the military history of the campaign, mainly the defense of Sevastopol. In the course of work on the book, the academician used numerous archival materials, included excerpts from the inaccessible work of the participants in the Crimean War and the works of foreign scientists and memoirists completely inaccessible to the reader. A beautiful visual series of publication - an extensive, carefully selected and precisely placed documentary material - will help the modern reader visibly present the events of that time and give fruitful food for thought and historical analogies.