A Russian Emancipation Reform took place in 1861. The above painting is Peasants Reading the Emancipation Manifesto, an 1873 painting by Grigory ...
The Treaty of Paris (1856): Terms and ConsequencesThe war formally concluded with the Treaty of Paris, signed on the 30th of March, 1856. Negotiations in ...
The winter of 1854–1855 turned the besieged city of Sevastopol into a frozen wasteland, where soldiers huddled in ill-equipped trenches, wrapped in ...
The Battle of the Alma by Eugene Lami.Among the most significant engagements was the Battle of Alma, fought on the 20th of September, 1854. This clash ...
Tsar Nicholas I of Russia in the 1850s. By Georg von Bothmann.From the battle-scarred plains of Crimea to the diplomatic chambers of Europe, the war ...
The Battle of Sinope by Alexey Bogolyubov.At its core, the Crimean War was a crucible of competing interests. It stemmed from the gradual disintegration ...