Shipka and Plevna. Russian-Turkish war. Kulichkin S.

The Russian-Turkish war of 1877-1878 is a landmark event in Russian history. Russia has gone through a series of qualitative transformations and reforms again showed the whole world that it should be considered with its interests, and its armies should be afraid. Helping the fraternal Bulgarian people to dump the Ottoman yoke and free their country from the inviters-bribes, Russia acted as a defender of all the weak and oppressed.

There were many battles in this war, in each of which the Russian soldier showed himself from the best side, Showing the miracles of stamina, courage and self -sacrifice, but the most famous are the battle on the Shipysk Pass and the siege of Plevna. These and other, no less interesting events are described in this work.

Thanks to the careful attitude to the facts, the support on the genuine documents of that era and ease of presentation of the material will be interesting to a wide circle of readers.